Bill Text: NY S07241 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to providing Haitian Creole language voting materials.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-11 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S07241 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07241-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          7241
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 11, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections
        AN ACT to amend the election  law,  in  relation  to  providing  Haitian
          Creole language voting materials
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The election law is amended by adding a new  section  3-507
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  3-507.  Boards  of elections; voting materials in Haitian Creole. A
     4  board of elections in a city with a population of over one million shall
     5  provide the same information in  Haitian  Creole  that  it  provides  in
     6  languages  other  than English on its website. It shall also produce and
     7  disseminate citywide a booklet that includes: (a) a  voter  registration
     8  form in English with instructions in Haitian Creole; (b) instructions in
     9  Haitian  Creole  regarding  the  criteria  and  application  process for
    10  obtaining an absentee ballot; and  (c)  a  section  with  general  voter
    11  information in Haitian Creole including frequently asked questions. Such
    12  board may include other languages on its website and in such booklet.
    13    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    14  ing that date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14714-01-6
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