Bill Text: NY S03146 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows a board of election to design an alternative poll site staffing plan to conduct an election.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-10-29 - signed chap.417 [S03146 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03146-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3146
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 4, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MYRIE  -- 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 alternative  provisions
          for poll site staffing
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The election law is amended by adding a new  section  3-500
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  3-500.  Alternative poll site staffing plan. 1. Notwithstanding the
     4  provisions of title four of this  article,  a  board  of  elections  may
     5  design  an  alternative  poll  site  staffing  plan  to more efficiently
     6  conduct an election in accordance with this  section.  Such  alternative
     7  poll site staffing plan must be filed with the state board of elections.
     8    2.  An  alternative  staffing  plan  shall  provide  for at least four
     9  inspectors, equally divided among the major parties, to be  assigned  to
    10  each  poll site, and all staffing must be likewise bipartisan. An alter-
    11  native staffing plan may consolidate election  district  and  poll  site
    12  staffing  functions  to efficiently conduct an election pursuant to this
    13  chapter, provided the tabulation of votes by election district shall not
    14  be impaired unless consolidation of election districts for  an  election
    15  is  otherwise permitted by this chapter, and such staffing plan complies
    16  with 9 NYCRR 6210.19(c).
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    18  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07190-01-9