STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10323 IN ASSEMBLY April 22, 2020 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to restricting election day duties of board of elections employees in the city of New York running for elected party positions 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. Every 10 commissioner in each board of elections except for commissioners of the 11 board of elections of the city of New York, may approve and at pleasure 12 remove a deputy, establish his title and prescribe his duties. 13 2. In the city of New York, the board of elections shall appoint an 14 executive director and a deputy executive director whose duties it shall 15 be to supervise the operations of the board of elections under the 16 supervision of such board. No board of elections employee in the city of 17 New York shall engage in any election day operations or management with- 18 in any assembly district in which he or she is also a candidate for an 19 elected party position. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 21 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13521-01-9