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Senate Bill S8131

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring board of inspectors be employees of certain facilities

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2019-S8131 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Elections
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §8-407, El L

2019-S8131 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to requiring board of inspectors be employees of certain facilities; requires board of inspectors be employees of nursing homes, residential health care facilities, facilities operated or licensed, or under the jurisdiction of, the department of mental hygiene or hospitals or facilities operated by the Veteran's Administration of the United States.

2019-S8131 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S8131 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8131
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 24, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  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  requiring  board  of
   inspectors  be  employees of certain facilities; and providing for the
   repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivisions  2, 5 and 7 of section 8-407 of the election
 law, as added by chapter 296 of the laws of 1988, are amended and a  new
 subdivision 7-a is added to read as follows:
   2.  Such  a  board  of  elections shall appoint, in the same manner as
 other inspectors, one or more bi-partisan  boards  of  inspectors,  each
 composed of two such inspectors[. Such inspectors may be regular employ-
 ees  of  such board of elections] WHO SHALL BE EMPLOYEES OF ANY FACILITY
 REFERENCED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION.
   5. The board of elections shall deliver to each  board  of  inspectors
 all the absentee ballots in the custody of such board of elections which
 are addressed to residents of the facilities which such board of inspec-
 tors  is  [assigned  to  attend]  EMPLOYED AT, together with one or more
 portable voting booths  of  a  type  approved  by  the  state  board  of
 elections  and  such  other  supplies  as  such board of inspectors will
 require to discharge its duties properly.
   7. It shall be the duty of each such superintendent, administrator  or
 director  to assist the board of inspectors [attending] AT such facility
 in the discharge of its duties, including, but  not  limited  to  making
 available  to  such board of inspectors space within such facility suit-
 able for the discharge of its duties.
   7-A. IN THE EVENT A FACILITY REFUSES TO COMPLY WITH THIS  SECTION  THE
 BOARD  OF ELECTIONS MAY MAIL A BALLOT TO EVERY RESIDENT OF SUCH FACILITY
 WHO HAS APPLIED FOR AN ABSENTEE BALLOT OR IS ELIGIBLE TO VOTE BY  ABSEN-
 TEE BALLOT.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
 deemed repealed December 31, 2020.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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