New York S 3773: Relates to the filing of transportation contracts

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S03773 Summary:

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Provides all registered voters on the day of the general election and the primary election in every even numbered year a full work day off without the loss of pay; provides a tax credit to small businesses who provide a paid day off to employees on general election day.

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01/29/2025REFERRED TO ELECTIONS

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ELECTIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 3773

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 29, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- 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 a full paid
 work day off for registered voters on certain election days; and to
 amend the tax law, in relation to providing a tax credit for certain
 small businesses

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1, 2 and 3 of section 3-110 of the election
 2 law, as amended by section 1 of part AAA of chapter 55 of the laws of
 3 2020, are amended to read as follows:
 4 1. (a) If a registered voter does not have sufficient time outside of
 5 [his or her] such registered voter's scheduled working hours, within
 6 which to vote on any day at which [he or she] such registered voter may
 7 vote, at any election except the general election held on the first
 8 Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday in November of each year or the
 9 primary election held on the fourth Tuesday in June before every general
 10 election in every even numbered year, [he or she] such registered voter
 11 may, without loss of pay for up to two hours, take off so much working
 12 time as will, when added to [his or her] their voting time outside [his
 13 or her] of their working hours, enable [him or her] such registered
 14 voter to vote.
 15 (b) All persons regardless of status related to voter eligibility,
 16 party affiliation, employment, residency, immigration or other legal or
 17 non-legal sociocultural status on the day of the general election held
 18 on the first Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday in November of
 19 each year and the primary election held on the fourth Tuesday in June
 20 before every general election in every even numbered year shall be given
 21 a paid day off to vote in such election.
 22 2. [If] Except during the general election held on the first Tuesday
 23 next succeeding the first Monday in November of each year or the primary

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05251-01-5

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 1 election held on the fourth Tuesday in June before every general
 2 election in every even numbered year, if an employee has four consec-
 3 utive hours either between the opening of the polls and the beginning of
 4 [his or her] their working shift, or between the end of [his or her]
 5 their working shift and the closing of the polls, [he or she] such
 6 employee shall be deemed to have sufficient time outside [his or her] of
 7 their working hours within which to vote. If [he or she] such employee
 8 has less than four consecutive hours [he or she] they may take off so
 9 much working time as will, when added to [his or her] their voting time
 10 outside [his or her] of their working hours enable [him or her] them to
 11 vote, but not more than two hours of which shall be without loss of pay,
 12 provided that [he or she] such employee shall be allowed time off for
 13 voting only at the beginning or end of [his or her] their working shift,
 14 as the employer may designate, unless otherwise mutually agreed.
 15 3. [If] Except during the general election held on the first Tuesday
 16 next succeeding the first Monday in November of each year or the primary
 17 election held on the fourth Tuesday in June before every general
 18 elect