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Assembly Bill A7505

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to time allowed for employees to vote

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2019-A7505 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3-110, El L

2019-A7505 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Decreases the hours from three to two for time allowed for employees to vote; provides that if an employee has four consecutive hours either between the opening of the polls and the beginning of his or her working shift, or between the end of his or her working shift and the closing of the polls, he or she shall be deemed to have sufficient time outside his or her working hours within which to vote.

2019-A7505 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7505
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 8, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. GALEF, NORRIS, BUCHWALD -- read once and referred
   to the Committee on Election Law
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  election  law,  in relation to time allowed for
   employees to vote
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. Section 3-110 of the election law, as amended by section 1
 of part YY of chapter 55 of the laws of 2019,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   §  3-110.  Time  allowed employees to vote. 1. A registered voter may,
 without loss of pay for up to [three] TWO hours, take off so much  work-
 ing time as will enable him or her to vote at any election.
   2.  [The] IF AN EMPLOYEE HAS FOUR CONSECUTIVE HOURS EITHER BETWEEN THE
 OPENING OF THE POLLS AND THE BEGINNING OF HIS OR HER WORKING  SHIFT,  OR
 BETWEEN  THE  END  OF  HIS  OR  HER WORKING SHIFT AND THE CLOSING OF THE
 POLLS, HE OR SHE SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE SUFFICIENT TIME OUTSIDE HIS  OR
 HER  WORKING HOURS WITHIN WHICH TO VOTE. IF HE OR SHE HAS LESS THAN FOUR
 CONSECUTIVE HOURS, THE employee shall be allowed  time  off  for  voting
 only at the beginning or end of his or her working shift, as the employ-
 er may designate, unless otherwise mutually agreed.
   3.  If  the  employee  requires  working time off to vote the employee
 shall notify his or her employer not MORE THAN TEN  NOR  less  than  two
 working days before the day of the election that he or she requires time
 off to vote in accordance with the provisions of this section.
   4. Not less than ten working days before every election, every employ-
 er shall post conspicuously in the place of work where it can be seen as
 employees  come or go to their place of work, a notice setting forth the
 provisions of this section. Such notice shall be kept posted  until  the
 close of the polls on election day.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11274-02-9

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