STATE OF NEW YORK
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10640
IN ASSEMBLY
June 20, 2024
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Seawright,
Dinowitz, Brabenec, Simon) -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to mandatory training
curriculum for election commissioners and key staff of boards of
elections
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 3-213
2 to read as follows:
3 § 3-213. Boards of elections; mandatory training curriculum. 1.
4 Election commissioners and such other board of elections employees as
5 determined by the state board of elections shall within six months after
6 their first appointment complete a course of instruction on the opera-
7 tion of a board of elections which shall be provided by the state board
8 of elections. The curriculum shall be established by the state board of
9 elections in consultation with election commissioners and shall not
10 exceed thirty hours of instruction.
11 2. Annually, election commissioners and other board of elections
12 employees as determined by the state board of elections, shall complete
13 before June first a continuing course of instruction on the operation of
14 a board of elections which shall be provided by the state board of
15 elections. The curriculum shall be established by the state board of
16 elections in consultation with the election commissioners and shall not
17 exceed three hours of instruction.
18 3. The state board of elections shall provide the training required by
19 subdivision two of this section through, in addition to other methods it
20 may choose, a web-based recorded format.
21 4. Upon the failure of a commissioner or other employee to complete
22 the instruction within the time required by this section, the state
23 board of elections shall send a letter to the county legislature or city
24 council and the respective county party chair of the jurisdiction of the
25 commissioner stating the delinquency.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00376-01-3
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1 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
2 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
3 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
4 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
5 completed on or before such effective date.
