STATE OF NEW YORK
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1087
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 8, 2025
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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 making commissioners
full time employees of boards outside 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 2 of section 3-200 of the election law is
2 amended to read as follows:
3 2. (a) Each board outside the city of New York shall consist of two
4 election commissioners who shall be full time employees of such board,
5 except that the county legislative body of a county having a population
6 of more than one hundred [and] twenty thousand may, by local law,
7 increase the number of such commissioners to four, to be appointed as
8 provided in this title.
9 (b) Each of the major political parties shall be eligible to recommend
10 appointment of an equal number of commissioners.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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