STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           424

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections

        AN ACT to amend the election  law,  in  relation  to  split  shifts  for
          election inspectors or poll clerks

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 3-400  of  the  election  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  293  of  the  laws  of 2017, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    7. The board of elections  may  employ  election  inspectors  or  poll
     5  clerks to work split shifts with adjusted compensation, provided, howev-
     6  er,  that    there  shall  not be a time when the poll site is open that
     7  there is not at least one inspector from each of the two major political
     8  parties [is] present [at the poll site for  the  entire  time  that  the
     9  polls  are  open].  Each  county  board of elections shall prescribe the
    10  necessary rules and procedures to ensure  proper  poll  site  operation,
    11  including  rules  detailing  the basis on which a request by an election
    12  inspector or poll clerk to work a split shift may be denied.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




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