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Assembly Bill A5578

2015-2016 Legislative Session

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

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2015-A5578 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S960
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง164-e, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A4387, S6883
2011-2012: A4198, S2746
2013-2014: A6698, S916
2017-2018: A3205, S3085
2019-2020: A3117

2015-A5578 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2015-A5578 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  5578

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 27, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ -- 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:

  Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  164-e
to read as follows:
  S 164-E. WEBSITE MATERIAL. ANY STATE DEPARTMENT, DIVISION, COMMISSION,
AGENCY  OR ANY OTHER ENTITY OF THE STATE WHICH MAINTAINS A WEBSITE WHICH
PROVIDES ANY MATERIALS EXPLAINING SERVICES WHICH SUCH DEPARTMENT,  DIVI-
SION,  COMMISSION,  AGENCY  OR OTHER ENTITY OF THE STATE PROVIDES TO THE
PUBLIC AND WHICH IS TRANSLATED INTO A NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE SPOKEN  BY  A
SUBSTANTIAL  NUMBER  OF THE PUBLIC SERVED BY ANY SUCH STATE ENTITY SHALL
PROVIDE A LINK ON ITS WEBSITE TO APPROPRIATE NON-ENGLISH INFORMATION.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD03654-01-5

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