Bill Text: NY S00614 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits election commissioners and deputy election commissioners from holding a publicly elected office or from being the respective chair of the county democratic or republican committees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2024-06-07 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S00614 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00614-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           614

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 5, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  MYRIE, MAY -- 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  prohibiting  election
          commissioners and deputy election commissioners from holding a public-
          ly elected office

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 3-200  of  the  election  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  195  of  the  laws  of 2003, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    4. No person [shall be] appointed as election commissioner  or  deputy
     5  election  commissioner shall continue to hold office who is not a regis-
     6  tered voter in the county and not an enrolled member of the party recom-
     7  mending his or her appointment, or who is the chair  of  the  respective
     8  democratic  or republican party or committee in such county or who holds
     9  any other public office, except that of commissioner  of  deeds,  notary
    10  public,  [village  officer, city or town justice,] member of a community
    11  board within the city of New York or trustee  or  officer  of  a  school
    12  district  outside  of  a  city; provided, however, that the provision of
    13  this subdivision prohibiting an election commissioner or deputy election
    14  commissioner from continuing to hold office who  is  the  chair  of  the
    15  respective  democratic  or  republican party or committee in such county
    16  shall not apply to any person currently serving as election commissioner
    17  or deputy election commissioner.
    18    § 2. Subdivision 6 of section 3-200 of the election law is amended  to
    19  read as follows:
    20    6.  An election commissioner or deputy election commissioner shall not
    21  be a candidate for any elective office which he  or  she  would  not  be
    22  entitled  to hold under the provisions of this article, unless he or she
    23  has ceased by resignation or otherwise, to  be  commissioner  or  deputy
    24  commissioner  prior  to  his  or her nomination or designation therefor.
    25  Otherwise such nomination or designation shall be null and void.
    26    § 3. 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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