Assembly Bill A6973

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to split shifts for election inspectors or poll clerks

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    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2023-A6973 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S609
Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3-400, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A4670
2015-2016: A2052
2017-2018: A4257, S5934
2019-2020: A1272, S2275
2021-2022: A51, S424

2023-A6973 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to split shifts for election inspectors or poll clerks.

2023-A6973 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6973
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 9, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the election  law,  in  relation  to  split  shifts  for
   election inspectors or poll clerks
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 3-400  of  the  election  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  293  of  the  laws  of 2017, is amended to read as
 follows:
   7. The board of elections  may  employ  election  inspectors  OR  POLL
 CLERKS to work split shifts with adjusted compensation, provided, howev-
 er,  that  at  least  one inspector from each of the two major political
 parties is present at the poll site for the entire time that  the  polls
 are  open.  Each county board of elections shall prescribe the necessary
 rules and procedures to ensure proper poll site operation.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03598-01-3



              

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