Assembly Bill A4310

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Restricts election day duties of board of elections employees in the city of New York running for elected party positions

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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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2021-A4310 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3-300, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A10323
2023-2024: A495

2021-A4310 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to restricting election day duties of board of elections employees in the city of New York running for elected party positions; provides that no board of elections employee in the city of New York shall engage in any election day operations or management within any assembly district in which he or she is also a candidate for an elected party position.

2021-A4310 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4310
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 1, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation  to  restricting  election
   day  duties  of  board  of elections employees in the city of New York
   running for elected party positions

   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.    Every
 commissioner  in each board of elections except for commissioners 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.
   2.  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. NO BOARD OF ELECTIONS EMPLOYEE IN THE CITY OF
 NEW YORK SHALL ENGAGE IN ANY ELECTION DAY OPERATIONS OR MANAGEMENT WITH-
 IN  ANY  ASSEMBLY DISTRICT IN WHICH HE OR SHE IS ALSO A CANDIDATE FOR AN
 ELECTED PARTY POSITION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02215-01-1

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