Bill Text: NY A06069 | 2025-2026 | 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 21-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-26 - referred to election law [A06069 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A06069-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6069

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 26, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  HUNTER,  RAMOS,  WOERNER,  ZINERMAN, PAULIN,
          GALLAGHER, LUNSFORD, REYES, DE LOS SANTOS, SHRESTHA, McMAHON,  KELLES,
          MAMDANI, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, LUPARDO, TAYLOR, TAPIA, ROSENTHAL, SAYEGH,
          SIMONE,  DAVILA -- 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. 1. Every board of elections
     4  shall appoint, and at its pleasure remove, clerks, voting machine  tech-
     5  nicians,  custodians  and  other  employees, fix their number, prescribe
     6  their duties, fix their titles and rank  and  establish  their  salaries
     7  within  the  amounts appropriated therefor by the local legislative body
     8  and shall secure in  the  appointment  of  employees  of  the  board  of
     9  elections equal representation of the major political parties.
    10     2.  Every  board  of  elections shall employ, at a minimum, four full
    11  time employees in addition to the appointed commissioners,  within  four
    12  years of the effective date of this subdivision; provided, however, that
    13  every  board  of elections shall employ at least two full time employees
    14  within two years of the effective date of this subdivision.  Every board
    15  of elections shall employ two additional employees for every full allot-
    16  ment of twenty thousand active registered voters beyond  forty  thousand
    17  active registered voters.
    18    3.  Every  commissioner  in each board of elections except for commis-
    19  sioners of the board of elections of the city of New York,  may  approve
    20  and  at  pleasure  remove  a  deputy,  establish  [his]  their title and
    21  prescribe [his] their duties. In the city of  New  York,  the  board  of
    22  elections  shall  appoint  an  executive director and a deputy executive
    23  director whose duties it shall be to supervise  the  operations  of  the
    24  board of elections under the supervision of such board.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03492-01-5