NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A7836
SPONSOR: Jones TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the election law, in relation to
required voting time for an employee without sufficient time to vote
outside of working hours
PURPOSE:
To have sufficient time to vote outside of working hours.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 amend subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 3-110 of the election
law to allow a voter who does not have sufficient time outside of his or
her working hours, within which to vote at any election, he or she may,
without loss of pay for up to three hours. If an employee has four
consecutive hours either between opening of the polls and the beginning
of his or her working shift, he or she shall be deemed to have suffi-
cient time outside his or her working hours within which to vote.
Section 2 provides the effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
In 2019, the New York State Legislature passed a series of Election
Laws, including giving voters 10 days of early access, prior to Election
Day, to cast their votes. This legislation reinstates language that was
unnecessarily removed by allowing those who do not have ample time to
vote outside of working hours to do so, If an employee does have ample
time to vote between the opening of the polls and the beginning of his
or her working shift, or between the end of his or her working shift and
the closing of the polls, he or she shall be deemed to have sufficient
time outside his or her working hours to vote.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
This is a new bill.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7836
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 24, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. JONES -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to required voting time
for an employee without sufficient time to vote outside of working
hours
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 3-110 of the election law,
2 as amended by section 1 of part YY of chapter 55 of the laws of 2019,
3 are amended to read as follows:
4 1. [A] If a registered voter does not have sufficient time outside of
5 his or her working hours, within which to vote at any election, he or
6 she may, without loss of pay for up to three hours, take off so much
7 working time as will, when added to his or her voting time outside his
8 or her working hours, enable him or her to vote at any election.
9 2. [The employee] If an employee has four consecutive hours either
10 between the opening of the polls and the beginning of his or her working
11 shift, or between the end of his or her working shift and the closing of
12 the polls, he or she shall be deemed to have sufficient time outside his
13 or her working hours within which to vote. If he or she has less than
14 four consecutive hours he or she may take off so much working time as
15 will when added to his or her voting time outside his or her working
16 hours enable him or her to vote, but not more than two hours of which
17 shall be without loss of pay, provided that he or she shall be allowed
18 time off for voting only at the beginning or end of his or her working
19 shift, as the employer may designate, unless otherwise mutually agreed.
20 § 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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