STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9725

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 28, 2022
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        Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Election Law

        AN  ACT  to  amend the election law, in relation to making commissioners
          full time employees of the board

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 3-200 of the election law
     2  are amended to read as follows:
     3    2. Each board shall consist of two election commissioners who shall be
     4  full time employees of the board, except  that  the  county  legislative
     5  body of a county having a population of more than one hundred and twenty
     6  thousand  may,  by  local  law,  increase the number of commissioners to
     7  four, to be appointed as provided in this title.    Each  of  the  major
     8  political parties shall be eligible to recommend appointment of an equal
     9  number of commissioners.
    10    3.  In the city of New York the board shall consist of ten commission-
    11  ers of election who shall be full time employees of the  board  and  who
    12  shall  be  registered  voters in the county for which they are appointed
    13  and they shall be appointed by the city council of the city of New York.
    14  Not more than two commissioners shall be registered voters of  the  same
    15  county.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13429-01-1