Authorizes full-time college students to act as election inspectors and poll clerks in the election district where their colleges are located

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                      May 13, 2025
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        Introduced  by M. of A. JACKSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Election Law

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in  relation  to  the  appointment  of
          college and university students as election inspectors

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Section 3-400 of the election law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 6-a to read as follows:
     3    6-A.  (A)  NOTWITHSTANDING  THE  PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION SIX OF THIS
     4  SECTION, ANY PERSON WHO IS A FULL-TIME COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY STUDENT MAY
     5  BE CERTIFIED AND ACT AS AN ELECTION INSPECTOR OR POLL CLERK IN THE COUN-
     6  TY IN WHICH SUCH PERSON'S COLLEGE  OR  UNIVERSITY  IS  LOCATED,  OR,  IF
     7  LOCATED  WITHIN  THE CITY OF NEW YORK, THEN SUCH PERSON MAY BE SO CERTI-
     8  FIED IN ANY COUNTY THEREIN, PROVIDED SUCH PERSON:
     9    (1) IS REGISTERED TO VOTE IN THIS STATE;
    10    (2) HOLDS NO ELECTIVE OFFICE;
    11    (3) IS NOT A CANDIDATE FOR ANY PUBLIC OFFICE TO BE VOTED  FOR  BY  THE
    12  VOTERS  OF THE DISTRICT IN WHICH SUCH PERSON IS TO SERVE, AND IS NOT THE
    13  SPOUSE, PARENT OR CHILD OF SUCH A CANDIDATE; AND
    14    (4) IS ABLE TO SPEAK AND READ THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND WRITE IT  LEGI-
    15  BLY.
    16    (B)  FOR  THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE TERM "FULL-TIME" SHALL
    17  MEAN ANY MATRICULATED STUDENT ENROLLED IN AT LEAST TWELVE  CREDIT  HOURS
    18  PER  SEMESTER AT A COLLEGE, AS DEFINED BY SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION SIX
    19  HUNDRED ONE OF THE EDUCATION LAW, LOCATED IN THIS STATE.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05070-01-5