Relates to requiring board of inspectors be employees of certain facilities; requires board of inspectors be employees of nursing homes, residential health care facilities, facilities operated or licensed, or under the jurisdiction of, the department of mental hygiene or hospitals or facilities operated by the Veteran's Administration of the United States.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8131
IN SENATE
March 24, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. MAY -- 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 requiring board of
inspectors be employees of certain facilities; and providing for the
repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 2, 5 and 7 of section 8-407 of the election
2 law, as added by chapter 296 of the laws of 1988, are amended and a new
3 subdivision 7-a is added to read as follows:
4 2. Such a board of elections shall appoint, in the same manner as
5 other inspectors, one or more bi-partisan boards of inspectors, each
6 composed of two such inspectors[. Such inspectors may be regular employ-
7 ees of such board of elections] who shall be employees of any facility
8 referenced in subdivision one of this section.
9 5. The board of elections shall deliver to each board of inspectors
10 all the absentee ballots in the custody of such board of elections which
11 are addressed to residents of the facilities which such board of inspec-
12 tors is [assigned to attend] employed at, together with one or more
13 portable voting booths of a type approved by the state board of
14 elections and such other supplies as such board of inspectors will
15 require to discharge its duties properly.
16 7. It shall be the duty of each such superintendent, administrator or
17 director to assist the board of inspectors [attending] at such facility
18 in the discharge of its duties, including, but not limited to making
19 available to such board of inspectors space within such facility suit-
20 able for the discharge of its duties.
21 7-a. In the event a facility refuses to comply with this section the
22 board of elections may mail a ballot to every resident of such facility
23 who has applied for an absentee ballot or is eligible to vote by absen-
24 tee ballot.
25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
26 deemed repealed December 31, 2020.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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