New York A 6069: Establishes minimum staffing levels for certain local board of elections

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A06069 Summary:

BILL NOA06069A

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SAME ASSAME AS S00843-A

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COSPNSRRamos, Woerner, Zinerman, Paulin, Gallagher, Lunsford, Reyes, De Los Santos, Shrestha, McMahon,
 Kelles, Mamdani, Bichotte Hermelyn, Lupardo, Taylor, Tapia, Rosenthal, Sayegh, Simone, Davila,
 Jacobson

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Amd §3-300, El L

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Requires a board of elections in a county with over ten thousand active registered voters to employ a minimum of four full-time employees which may include the commissioner and deputies if such positions are full time.

Go to top A06069 Actions:

BILL NOA06069A

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02/26/2025referred to election law

01/07/2026referred to election law

04/30/2026amend (t) and recommit to election law

04/30/2026print number 6069a

05/06/2026reported referred to ways and means

Go to topA06069 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:ELECTION LAW Chair:Walker 
DATE:05/06/2026AYE/NAY:15/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Ways and Means WalkerAyeSlaterAye

DinowitzAyeBrabenecAye

Carroll RCAyeMikulinAbsent

TaylorAyeTagueAye

JacobsonAyeBrook-KrasnyAye

GallagherAye

RiveraAye

Chandler-WatermAye

WiederAye

Carroll P Aye

SimoneAye

Go to topA06069 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA06069 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6069--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 26, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER, RAMOS, WOERNER, ZINERMAN, PAULIN,
 GALLAGHER, LUNSFORD, REYES, DE LOS SANTOS, SHRESTHA, McMAHON, KELLES,
 BICHOTTE HERMELYN, LUPARDO, TAYLOR, TAPIA, ROSENTHAL, SAYEGH, SIMONE,
 DAVILA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law --
 recommitted to the Committee on Election Law in accordance with Assem-
 bly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
 reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to establishing minimum
 staffing levels for certain local board of elections

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 3-300 of the election law is amended to read as
 2 follows:
 3 § 3-300. Board employees; appointment. 1. Every board of elections
 4 shall appoint, and at its pleasure remove, clerks, voting machine tech-
 5 nicians, custodians and other employees, fix their number, prescribe
 6 their duties, fix their titles and rank and establish their salaries
 7 within the amounts appropriated therefor by the local legislative body
 8 and shall secure in the appointment of employees of the board of
 9 elections equal representation of the major political parties.
 10 2. Every board of elections of a county that includes over ten thou-
 11 sand active registered voters shall employ, at a minimum, four full-time
 12 employees inclusive of any full-time commissioners and full-time depu-
 13 ties. Every board of elections shall employ two additional employees for
 14 every full allotment of twenty thousand active registered voters under
 15 its jurisdiction. Any board of elections below the minimum number of
 16 employees required by this subdivision shall hire two additional full-
 17 time employees annually until the minimum requirement is met, provided
 18 that the minimum requirement is met within three years of the effective
 19 date of this subdivision.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03492-02-6

 A. 6069--A 2

 1 3. Every commissioner in each board of elections except for commis-
 2 sioners of the board of elections of the city of New York, may approve
 3 and at pleasure remove a deputy, establish [his] their title and
 4 prescribe [his] their duties. In the city of New York, the board of
 5 elections shall appoint an executive director and a deputy executive
 6 director whose duties it shall be to supervise the operations of the
 7 board of elections under the supervision of such board.
 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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