Bill Text: NY S03085 | 2017-2018 | 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 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S03085 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S03085-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3085 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 19, 2017 ___________ 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 § 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 § 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. LBD07770-01-7
