Bill Text: NY A01258 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires every board of elections to employ a minimum of four full time employees in addition to the appointed commissioners within four years and shall employ two of those full time employees within two years; and two additional employees for every twenty thousand active registered voters beyond forty thousand active registered voters.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 29-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-04 - print number 1258a [A01258 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01258-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1258

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 13, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. HUNTER, RAMOS -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Election Law

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation  to  establishing  minimum
          staffing levels for local board of elections

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 3-300 of the election law is  amended  to  read  as
     2  follows:
     3    §  3-300. Board employees; appointment. Every board of elections shall
     4  appoint, and at its pleasure remove, clerks, voting machine technicians,
     5  custodians and  other  employees,  fix  their  number,  prescribe  their
     6  duties,  fix  their  titles and rank and establish their salaries within
     7  the amounts appropriated therefor by  the  local  legislative  body  and
     8  shall  secure  in the appointment of employees of the board of elections
     9  equal representation of the major political parties.    Every  board  of
    10  elections  shall employ, at a minimum, four full time employees in addi-
    11  tion to the appointed commissioners.   Each  board  of  elections  shall
    12  employ two additional employees for every full allotment of twenty thou-
    13  sand  active  registered  voters beyond forty thousand active registered
    14  voters. Every commissioner in each board of elections except for commis-
    15  sioners of the board of elections of the city of New York,  may  approve
    16  and  at  pleasure remove a deputy, establish his title and prescribe his
    17  duties. In the city of New York, the board of elections shall appoint an
    18  executive director and a deputy executive director whose duties it shall
    19  be to supervise the operations of  the  board  of  elections  under  the
    20  supervision of such board.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03379-01-3