Bill Text: NY A04670 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to half-day shifts for election inspectors or poll clerks.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-01-27 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [A04670 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A04670-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4670
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 7, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. QUART -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to half-day shifts for
election inspectors or poll clerks
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 3-400 of the election law, as
2 added by chapter 5 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
3 7. The board of elections may employ election inspectors OR POLL
4 CLERKS to work half-day shifts with adjusted compensation, provided,
5 however, that THERE SHALL NOT BE A TIME WHEN THE POLL SITE IS OPEN THAT
6 THERE IS NOT at least one inspector from each of the two major political
7 parties [is] present [at the poll site for the entire time that the
8 polls are open]. Each county board of elections shall prescribe the
9 necessary rules and procedures to ensure proper poll site operation,
10 INCLUDING RULES DETAILING THE BASIS ON WHICH A REQUEST BY AN ELECTION
11 INSPECTOR OR POLL CLERK TO WORK A HALF-DAY SHIFT MAY BE DENIED.
12 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08699-01-3
