Assembly Bill A8388

                             
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                                   8388
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 13, 2025
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 Introduced  by M. of A. JACKSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in  relation  to  the  appointment  of
   college and university students as election inspectors
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 3-400 of the election law is amended  by  adding  a
 new subdivision 6-a to read as follows:
   6-A.  (A)  NOTWITHSTANDING  THE  PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION SIX OF THIS
 SECTION, ANY PERSON WHO IS A FULL-TIME COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY STUDENT MAY
 BE CERTIFIED AND ACT AS AN ELECTION INSPECTOR OR POLL CLERK IN THE COUN-
 TY IN WHICH SUCH PERSON'S COLLEGE  OR  UNIVERSITY  IS  LOCATED,  OR,  IF
 LOCATED  WITHIN  THE CITY OF NEW YORK, THEN SUCH PERSON MAY BE SO CERTI-
 FIED IN ANY COUNTY THEREIN, PROVIDED SUCH PERSON:
   (1) IS REGISTERED TO VOTE IN THIS STATE;
   (2) HOLDS NO ELECTIVE OFFICE;
   (3) IS NOT A CANDIDATE FOR ANY PUBLIC OFFICE TO BE VOTED  FOR  BY  THE
 VOTERS  OF THE DISTRICT IN WHICH SUCH PERSON IS TO SERVE, AND IS NOT THE
 SPOUSE, PARENT OR CHILD OF SUCH A CANDIDATE; AND
   (4) IS ABLE TO SPEAK AND READ THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND WRITE IT  LEGI-
 BLY.
   (B)  FOR  THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE TERM "FULL-TIME" SHALL
 MEAN ANY MATRICULATED STUDENT ENROLLED IN AT LEAST TWELVE  CREDIT  HOURS
 PER  SEMESTER AT A COLLEGE, AS DEFINED BY SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION SIX
 HUNDRED ONE OF THE EDUCATION LAW, LOCATED IN THIS STATE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05070-01-5