Senate Bill S843

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes minimum staffing levels for local board of elections

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Current 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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2025-S843 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Elections
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3-300, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S6684
2023-2024: S644

2025-S843 (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.

2025-S843 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S843 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    843
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  MAY,  WEBB -- 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. 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]  THEIR title and
 prescribe [his] THEIR 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

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