STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 843 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MAY, WEBB -- 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 establishing minimum staffing levels for 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 shall employ, at a minimum, four full 11 time employees in addition to the appointed commissioners, within four 12 years of the effective date of this subdivision; provided, however, that 13 every board of elections shall employ at least two full time employees 14 within two years of the effective date of this subdivision. Every board 15 of elections shall employ two additional employees for every full allot- 16 ment of twenty thousand active registered voters beyond forty thousand 17 active registered voters. 18 3. Every commissioner in each board of elections except for commis- 19 sioners of the board of elections of the city of New York, may approve 20 and at pleasure remove a deputy, establish [his] their title and 21 prescribe [his] their duties. In the city of New York, the board of 22 elections shall appoint an executive director and a deputy executive 23 director whose duties it shall be to supervise the operations of the 24 board of elections under the supervision of such board. 25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03492-01-5