Bill Text: NY A02332 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires any website or mobile application associated with an electronic benefit transfer system to be offered in Chinese.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-16 - referred to social services [A02332 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A02332-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2332

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 16, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. BERGER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Social Services

        AN  ACT  to  amend the social services law, in relation to requiring any
          website or mobile application associated with  an  electronic  benefit
          transfer system to be offered in Chinese

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 21-a of the  social  services  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
     3    3.  (a) Any companion website or mobile application associated with an
     4  electronic benefit transfer system implemented pursuant to this  section
     5  that  is  accessible  by  benefit  recipients shall be made available in
     6  Chinese.
     7    (b) Any companion website or mobile  application  associated  with  an
     8  electronic  benefit transfer system implemented pursuant to this section
     9  that is accessible by benefit recipients shall provide  for  the  trans-
    10  lation  of  any  documents  made available for viewing on such companion
    11  website or mobile application in Chinese.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    13  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    14  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    15  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    16  on or before such effective date.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05621-01-5