A 3161: Prohibits election commissioners and deputy election commissioners from holding a publicly elected office or from being the respective chair of the county democratic or republican committees.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3161 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 23, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. R. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to prohibiting election commissioners and deputy election commissioners from holding a public- ly elected office The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 3-200 of the election law, as 2 amended by chapter 195 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 4. No person [shall be] appointed as election commissioner or deputy 5 election commissioner shall continue to hold office who is not a regis- 6 tered voter in the county and not an enrolled member of the party recom- 7 mending [his] their appointment, or who is the chair of the respective 8 democratic or republican party or committee in such county or who holds 9 any other public office, except that of commissioner of deeds, notary 10 public, [village officer, city or town justice,] member of a community 11 board within the city of New York or trustee or officer of a school 12 district outside of a city; provided, however, that the provision of 13 this subdivision prohibiting an election commissioner or deputy election 14 commissioner from continuing to hold office who is the chair of the 15 respective democratic or republican party or committee in such county 16 shall not apply to any person currently serving as election commissioner 17 or deputy election commissioner. 18 § 2. Subdivision 6 of section 3-200 of the election law is amended to 19 read as follows: 20 6. An election commissioner or deputy election commissioner shall not 21 be a candidate for any elective office which [he] they would not be 22 entitled to hold under the provisions of this article, unless [he has] 23 they have ceased by resignation or otherwise, to be commissioner or 24 deputy commissioner prior to [his] their nomination or designation 25 therefor. Otherwise such nomination or designation shall be null and 26 void. 27 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06613-01-5