Senate Bill S6278

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to required voting time for an employee without sufficient time to vote outside of working hours

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Elections Committee

  • 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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2019-S6278 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7836
Current Committee:
Senate Elections
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3-110, El L

2019-S6278 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to required voting time for an employee without sufficient time to vote outside of working hours.

2019-S6278 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S6278 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6278
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               June 3, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. BRESLIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to  required  voting  time
   for  an  employee  without  sufficient time to vote outside of working
   hours

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 3-110 of the election law,
 as amended by section 1 of part YY of chapter 55 of the  laws  of  2019,
 are amended to read as follows:
   1.  [A] IF A registered voter DOES NOT HAVE SUFFICIENT TIME OUTSIDE OF
 HIS OR HER WORKING HOURS, WITHIN WHICH TO VOTE AT ANY  ELECTION,  HE  OR
 SHE  may,  without  loss  of pay for up to three hours, take off so much
 working time as will, WHEN ADDED TO HIS OR HER VOTING TIME  OUTSIDE  HIS
 OR HER WORKING HOURS, enable him or her to vote at any election.
   2.  [The  employee]  IF  AN EMPLOYEE HAS FOUR CONSECUTIVE HOURS EITHER
 BETWEEN THE OPENING OF THE POLLS AND THE BEGINNING OF HIS OR HER WORKING
 SHIFT, OR BETWEEN THE END OF HIS OR HER WORKING SHIFT AND THE CLOSING OF
 THE POLLS, HE OR SHE SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE SUFFICIENT TIME OUTSIDE HIS
 OR HER WORKING HOURS WITHIN WHICH TO VOTE. IF HE OR SHE  HAS  LESS  THAN
 FOUR  CONSECUTIVE  HOURS  HE OR SHE MAY TAKE OFF SO MUCH WORKING TIME AS
 WILL WHEN ADDED TO HIS OR HER VOTING TIME OUTSIDE  HIS  OR  HER  WORKING
 HOURS  ENABLE  HIM  OR HER TO VOTE, BUT NOT MORE THAN TWO HOURS OF WHICH
 SHALL BE WITHOUT LOSS OF PAY, PROVIDED THAT HE OR SHE shall  be  allowed
 time  off  for voting only at the beginning or end of his or her working
 shift, as the employer may designate, unless otherwise mutually agreed.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11455-01-9

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