Increases the minimum compensation to be paid to election day workers to three hundred dollars and election coordinators to four hundred dollars within the city of New York.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3041
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 27, 2023
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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 increasing the minimum
compensation to be paid to election day workers within the city of New
York
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 3-420 of the election law, as
2 amended by chapter 180 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. Election inspectors, poll clerks, election coordinators and quali-
5 fied voters appointed to act in place of an absent inspector, clerk or
6 coordinator shall be paid for their services on the days of registration
7 and election, by the county containing the election district in which
8 they serve, in an amount fixed by the county legislative body, subject
9 to such limitations as shall be prescribed or authorized by statute,
10 except that in the city of New York the amount of such compensation
11 shall be payable by such city and shall be fixed by the mayor at a daily
12 rate which, in the case of election inspectors shall not be less than
13 [one hundred thirty] three hundred dollars and in the case of election
14 coordinators not less than [two hundred] four hundred dollars. Such
15 inspectors, poll clerks, election coordinators and qualified voters at a
16 general or special village election conducted by the board of elections
17 shall be paid by such village in an amount fixed by the village board of
18 trustees subject to any such limitations.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04076-01-3
