Bill Text: NY A04198 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 4198 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires state departments, divisions, commissions, agencies and other entities which have a website to provide a link on such website to appropriate non-English information.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-01 - held for consideration in governmental operations [A04198 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A04198-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4198
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 2, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ORTIZ,  WEISENBERG,  CASTRO -- read once and
         referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
       AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring state  agen-
         cies to provide certain information in non-English languages
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  164-e
    2  to read as follows:
    3    S 164-E. WEBSITE MATERIAL. ANY STATE DEPARTMENT, DIVISION, COMMISSION,
    4  AGENCY  OR ANY OTHER ENTITY OF THE STATE WHICH MAINTAINS A WEBSITE WHICH
    5  PROVIDES ANY MATERIALS EXPLAINING SERVICES WHICH SUCH DEPARTMENT,  DIVI-
    6  SION,  COMMISSION,  AGENCY  OR OTHER ENTITY OF THE STATE PROVIDES TO THE
    7  PUBLIC AND WHICH IS TRANSLATED INTO A NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE SPOKEN  BY  A
    8  SUBSTANTIAL  NUMBER  OF THE PUBLIC SERVED BY ANY SUCH STATE ENTITY SHALL
    9  PROVIDE A LINK ON ITS WEBSITE TO APPROPRIATE NON-ENGLISH INFORMATION.
   10    S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   11  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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