A 1228: Relates to mandatory training curriculum for election commissioners and key staff of boards of elections.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1228 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 9, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SEAWRIGHT, DINOWITZ, BRABENEC, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to mandatory training curriculum for election commissioners and key staff of boards of elections The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The election law is amended by adding a new section 3-213 2 to read as follows: 3 § 3-213. Boards of elections; mandatory training curriculum. 1. 4 Election commissioners and such other board of elections employees as 5 determined by the state board of elections shall within six months after 6 their first appointment complete a course of instruction on the opera- 7 tion of a board of elections which shall be provided by the state board 8 of elections. The curriculum shall be established by the state board of 9 elections in consultation with election commissioners and shall not 10 exceed thirty hours of instruction. 11 2. Annually, election commissioners and other board of elections 12 employees as determined by the state board of elections, shall complete 13 before June first a continuing course of instruction on the operation of 14 a board of elections which shall be provided by the state board of 15 elections. The curriculum shall be established by the state board of 16 elections in consultation with the election commissioners and shall not 17 exceed three hours of instruction. 18 3. The state board of elections shall provide the training required by 19 subdivision two of this section through, in addition to other methods it 20 may choose, a web-based recorded format. 21 4. Upon the failure of a commissioner or other employee to complete 22 the instruction within the time required by this section, the state 23 board of elections shall send a letter to the county legislature or city EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02948-01-5 
 A. 1228 2 1 council and the respective county party chair of the jurisdiction of the 2 commissioner stating the delinquency. 3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 4 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 5 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 6 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 7 completed on or before such effective date.