assembly Bill A1258

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Establishes minimum staffing levels for local board of elections

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Jan 13, 2023 referred to election law

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A1258 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S644
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3-300, El L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A7780, S6684

A1258 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires every board of elections to employ a minimum of four full time employees in addition to the appointed commissioners and two additional employees for every twenty thousand active registered voters beyond forty thousand active registered voters.

A1258 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1258
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. HUNTER, RAMOS -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Election Law
 
 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:

   Section 1. Section 3-300 of the election law is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   §  3-300. Board employees; appointment. Every board of elections shall
 appoint, and at its pleasure remove, clerks, voting machine technicians,
 custodians and  other  employees,  fix  their  number,  prescribe  their
 duties,  fix  their  titles and rank and establish their salaries within
 the amounts appropriated therefor by  the  local  legislative  body  and
 shall  secure  in the appointment of employees of the board of elections
 equal representation of the major political parties.    EVERY  BOARD  OF
 ELECTIONS  SHALL EMPLOY, AT A MINIMUM, FOUR FULL TIME EMPLOYEES IN ADDI-
 TION TO THE APPOINTED COMMISSIONERS.   EACH  BOARD  OF  ELECTIONS  SHALL
 EMPLOY TWO ADDITIONAL EMPLOYEES FOR EVERY FULL ALLOTMENT OF TWENTY THOU-
 SAND  ACTIVE  REGISTERED  VOTERS BEYOND FORTY THOUSAND ACTIVE REGISTERED
 VOTERS. Every commissioner in each board of elections except for commis-
 sioners of the board of elections of the city of New York,  may  approve
 and  at  pleasure remove a deputy, establish his title and prescribe his
 duties. In the city of New York, the board of elections shall appoint an
 executive director and a deputy executive director whose duties it shall
 be to supervise the operations of  the  board  of  elections  under  the
 supervision of such board.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03379-01-3