Bill Text: NY S00644 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires every board of elections to employ a minimum of four full time employees in addition to the appointed commissioners within four years and shall employ two of those full time employees within two years; and two additional employees for every twenty thousand active registered voters beyond forty thousand active registered voters.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2024-05-21 - referred to election law [S00644 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00644-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         644--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 5, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. MANNION, WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when  printed  to be committed to the Committee on Elections -- recom-
          mitted 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 establishing minimum
          staffing levels for local board of elections

          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.
    10     2. Every board of elections shall employ, at  a  minimum,  four  full
    11  time  employees  in addition to the appointed commissioners, within four
    12  years of the effective date of this subdivision; provided, however, that
    13  every board of elections shall employ at least two full  time  employees
    14  within two years of the effective date of this subdivision.  Every board
    15  of elections shall employ two additional employees for every full allot-
    16  ment  of  twenty thousand active registered voters beyond forty thousand
    17  active registered voters.
    18    3. Every commissioner in each board of elections  except  for  commis-
    19  sioners  of  the board of elections of the city of New York, may approve
    20  and at pleasure remove a deputy, establish his title and  prescribe  his
    21  duties. In the city of New York, the board of elections shall appoint an
    22  executive director and a deputy executive director whose duties it shall
    23  be  to  supervise  the  operations  of  the board of elections under the
    24  supervision of such board.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03379-02-3