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                                   3293
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 29, 2019
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. CYMBROWITZ, COLTON -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to increasing the  compen-
   sation of election inspectors and other election workers
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 3-420  of  the  election  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  180  of  the  laws  of 2005, is amended to read as
 follows:
   1. Election inspectors, poll clerks, election coordinators and  quali-
 fied  voters  appointed to act in place of an absent inspector, clerk or
 coordinator shall be paid for their services on the days of registration
 and election, by the county containing the election  district  in  which
 they  serve,  in an amount fixed by the county legislative body, subject
 to such limitations as shall be prescribed  or  authorized  by  statute,
 except  that  in  the  city  of New York the amount of such compensation
 shall be payable by such city and shall be fixed by the mayor at a daily
 rate which, in the case of election inspectors shall not  be  less  than
 one  hundred thirty dollars and in the case of election coordinators not
 less than two hundred dollars. Such inspectors,  poll  clerks,  election
 coordinators  and  qualified  voters  at  a  general  or special village
 election conducted by the board of  elections  shall  be  paid  by  such
 village  in  an amount fixed by the village board of trustees subject to
 any such limitations.  THE COMPENSATION PAYABLE PURSUANT TO THIS  SUBDI-
 VISION  OF  ELECTION INSPECTORS, POLL CLERKS, ELECTION COORDINATORS, AND
 QUALIFIED VOTERS APPOINTED TO ACT  IN  PLACE  OF  AN  ABSENT  INSPECTOR,
 CLERK,  OR  COORDINATOR,  WHO  HAVE OR WILL HAVE BEEN EMPLOYED IN ANY OF
 SUCH CAPACITIES WITHIN THE COUNTY OF EMPLOYMENT OUTSIDE THE CITY OF  NEW
 YORK  OR  WITHIN  THE  CITY OF NEW YORK FOR FOUR OR MORE YEARS, SHALL BE
 INCREASED BY TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT OF THE AMOUNT OTHERWISE PAYABLE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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