Bill Text: NY A04777 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Increases the term of office of an election commissioner from two to four years beginning January first of each odd numbered year.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to election law [A04777 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04777-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4777--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 23, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. PRETLOW, LUNSFORD, REYES, SILLITTI, McMAHON --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN  ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the terms of office of
          election commissioners

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  3-202 of the election law is
     2  amended to read as follows:
     3    1. The term of office of an election commissioner shall be [two]  four
     4  years  beginning January first of each odd numbered year [except that in
     5  the city of New York and the county of Schenectady  the  term  shall  be
     6  four  years  beginning  on  January first of each alternate odd numbered
     7  year. The county legislative body of any other county may determine that
     8  the commissioners of elections thereafter appointed shall  serve  for  a
     9  term  of four years. Such determination may be rescinded by a subsequent
    10  action of the county legislative body which shall  take  effect  at  the
    11  expiration of the terms of the commissioners then in office].
    12    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all
    13  elections occurring on and after November 1, 2024.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09469-03-3