Bill Text: NY S00960 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | 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 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S00960 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S00960-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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960
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 7, 2015
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Introduced by Sens. SERRANO, KRUEGER, PARKER, PERALTA, SANDERS, SQUADRON
-- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
the Committee on Finance
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.
LBD03654-01-5
