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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7837
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 24, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. BENEDETTO -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Election Law
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.
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