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| May 17, 2022 | referred to election law delivered to assembly passed senate |
| Mar 02, 2022 | advanced to third reading |
| Mar 01, 2022 | 2nd report cal. |
| Feb 28, 2022 | 1st report cal.570 |
| Feb 11, 2022 | referred to elections |
senate Bill S8311
2021-2022 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
Shelley B. Mayer
(D, WF) 37th Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - Passed Senate
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Alessandra Biaggi
(D, WF) 0 Senate District
Rachel May
(D, WF) 48th Senate District
S8311 (ACTIVE) - Details
S8311 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S8311 SPONSOR: MAYER TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the election law, in relation to making commissioners full time employees of the board PURPOSE: Makes election commissioners full time employees of Boards of Elections. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Section I amends subdivision 2 and 3 of section 3-200 of the election law to ensure that each county board of elections has two commissioners who are full time employees of the board. Counties with populations of over 120,000 use a local law to increase their number of election commissioners to four. It also provides that New York City's Board of Elections shall have ten commissioners, all of whom shall be full time employees of the board and registered to vote in the county for which they are appointed. The New York City Council must appoint New York
S8311 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8311
I N S E N A T E
February 11, 2022
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Introduced by Sen. MAYER -- 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 making commissioners
full time employees of the board
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 3-200 of the election law
are amended to read as follows:
2. Each board shall consist of two election commissioners WHO SHALL BE
FULL TIME EMPLOYEES OF THE BOARD, except that the county legislative
body of a county having a population of more than one hundred and twenty
thousand may, by local law, increase the number of commissioners to
four, to be appointed as provided in this title. Each of the major
political parties shall be eligible to recommend appointment of an equal
number of commissioners.
3. In the city of New York the board shall consist of ten commission-
ers of election WHO SHALL BE FULL TIME EMPLOYEES OF THE BOARD AND who
shall be registered voters in the county for which they are appointed
and they shall be appointed by the city council of the city of New York.
Not more than two commissioners shall be registered voters of the same
county.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13429-01-1
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