Bill > S2867

Introduced Session

This bill requires enhanced reviews of death records two months prior to an election, permits remote training for certain election workers, and exempts election worker compensation from taxation and remuneration. Under current law, once per month, the health officer or other officer in charge of records of death in each municipality files lists of all persons 18 years of age or older who have died with the commissioner of registration for the county in which the municipality is located. Also, election workers are required to attend an in-person instructional session at least once every two years. Finally, election worker compensation is included in gross income for the purposes of taxation. This bill requires that for the two months immediately preceding a primary or general election, the officer in charge of records of death would file bi-weekly reports to the commissioner of registration. The commissioner of registration would then have 10 days to investigate the list and remove any deceased voter from the voter rolls. This bill also clarifies that instructional sessions for election workers be conducted in person. A county board of elections may also conduct instructional sessions remotely, by electronic means, to any district board member who has completed the instructional session in person within the last four years. The county boards of elections would implement the procedures for conducting a remote session, which would need to be approved by the Secretary of State. The procedures would need to be reviewed and approved once every two years. This bill also exempts election worker compensation, for work performed on election day or during the early voting period, from gross income taxation and remuneration, for workers' compensation purposes.

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Joe Cryan (D)*,  Joe Lagana (D)*,  Declan O'Scanlon (R),  Nellie Pou (D), 

Substituted by A3823 (2R) (on 06/29/2022)

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