Senate Bill S644A

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Establishes minimum staffing levels for local board of elections

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S644 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1258
Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3-300, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S6684, A7780
2025-2026: S843, A6069

2023-S644 - Summary

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

2023-S644 - Sponsor Memo

2023-S644 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    644
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 5, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. MANNION -- 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  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

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2023-S644A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1258
Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3-300, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S6684, A7780
2025-2026: S843, A6069

2023-S644A (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2023-S644A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S644A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  644--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 5, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. MANNION, WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and
   when  printed  to be committed to the Committee on Elections -- recom-
   mitted to the Committee on Elections in accordance with Senate Rule 6,
   sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as
   amended and recommitted to said committee

 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. 1.  Every  board  of  elections
 shall  appoint, and at its pleasure remove, clerks, voting machine tech-
 nicians, 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.
    2. EVERY BOARD OF ELECTIONS SHALL EMPLOY, AT  A  MINIMUM,  FOUR  FULL
 TIME  EMPLOYEES  IN ADDITION TO THE APPOINTED COMMISSIONERS, WITHIN FOUR
 YEARS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SUBDIVISION; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT
 EVERY BOARD OF ELECTIONS SHALL EMPLOY AT LEAST TWO FULL  TIME  EMPLOYEES
 WITHIN TWO YEARS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SUBDIVISION.  EVERY BOARD
 OF ELECTIONS SHALL EMPLOY TWO ADDITIONAL EMPLOYEES FOR EVERY FULL ALLOT-
 MENT  OF  TWENTY THOUSAND ACTIVE REGISTERED VOTERS BEYOND FORTY THOUSAND
 ACTIVE REGISTERED VOTERS.
   3. 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.

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