Bill Text: NY A10683 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes timelines for payment of election inspectors.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-08-28 - referred to election law [A10683 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10683-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10683

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     August 28, 2024
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        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Jacobson) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the election law, in relation to payment of election
          inspectors

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

     1    Section  1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 3-420 of the election law,
     2  as amended by chapter 180 of the laws of 2005, are amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  Election inspectors, poll clerks, election coordinators and quali-
     5  fied voters appointed to act in place of an absent inspector,  clerk  or
     6  coordinator shall be paid for their services on the days of registration
     7  and  election,  by  the county containing the election district in which
     8  they serve, in an amount fixed by the county legislative  body,  subject
     9  to  such  limitations  as  shall be prescribed or authorized by statute,
    10  except that in the city of New York  the  amount  of  such  compensation
    11  shall be payable by such city and shall be fixed by the mayor at a daily
    12  rate  which,  in  the case of election inspectors shall not be less than
    13  one hundred thirty dollars and in the case of election coordinators  not
    14  less  than  two  hundred dollars. Such inspectors, poll clerks, election
    15  coordinators and qualified  voters  at  a  general  or  special  village
    16  election  conducted  by  the  board  of  elections shall be paid by such
    17  village in an amount fixed by the village board of trustees  subject  to
    18  any  such  limitations.  All  election  inspectors  shall be paid within
    19  forty-five days of  the  election  in  which  such  election  inspectors
    20  worked.
    21    2. An election inspector or poll clerk who attends a required training
    22  session shall be paid not less than twenty-five dollars for each meeting
    23  plus, at the option of the county, transportation expenses not to exceed
    24  the  mileage allowance approved by the county legislative body for their
    25  permanent employees, payable by the county or in the case of the city of
    26  New York, by such city. For administrative  purposes,  each  county  may
    27  establish one or more categories for the mileage allowance, based on the
    28  range of distance traveled, and pay the mileage allowance for that cate-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15972-01-4
        A. 10683                            2

     1  gory.  Payment  for  attending  such required training sessions shall be
     2  paid within forty-five days of the next election following such training
     3  session.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.