Bill Text: NY S05314 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to time allowed for employees of schools to vote; provides that such employees shall only be eligible for time off to vote if the employee does not have 4 consecutive non-working hours either before the polls open or before the polls close.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S05314 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05314-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          5314
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 25, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- 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  time  allowed  for
          employees of schools to vote
          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 3-110  of  the  election  law,  as
     2  amended  by  section  1 of part YY of chapter 55 of the laws of 2019, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    1. A registered voter may, without loss of pay for up to three  hours,
     5  take  off  so much working time as will enable him or her to vote at any
     6  election provided, however, that employees of public  school  districts,
     7  charter  schools,  nonpublic  schools,  and boards of cooperative educa-
     8  tional services shall only be eligible for such time off if the employee
     9  does not have four consecutive  non-working  hours  either  between  the
    10  opening  of  the polls and the beginning of his or her working shift, or
    11  between the end of his or her working  shift  and  the  closing  of  the
    12  polls.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11315-01-9
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