Bill Text: NY S00424 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to split shifts for election inspectors or poll clerks.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-17 - referred to election law [S00424 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00424-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         424--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. HOYLMAN, REICHLIN-MELNICK, SALAZAR -- read twice and
          ordered  printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
          Elections -- recommitted to the Committee on Elections  in  accordance
          with  Senate  Rule  6,  sec.  8 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        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  at  least  one inspector from each of the two major political
     7  parties is present at the poll site for the entire time that  the  polls
     8  are  open.  Each county board of elections shall prescribe the necessary
     9  rules and procedures to ensure proper poll site operation.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01374-02-2