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Senate Bill S5287

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to providing Haitian Creole language voting materials

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2021-S5287 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5323
Current Committee:
Senate Elections
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Add §3-507, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S7241, A9727
2017-2018: S2844, A311
2019-2020: S4877, A3025
2023-2024: S6782
2025-2026: S4280

2021-S5287 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to providing Haitian Creole language voting materials.

2021-S5287 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S5287 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5287
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 1, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  PARKER, COMRIE -- 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:
 
   Section 1. The election law is amended by adding a new  section  3-507
 to read as follows:
   §  3-507.  BOARDS  OF ELECTIONS; VOTING MATERIALS IN HAITIAN CREOLE. A
 BOARD OF ELECTIONS IN A CITY WITH A POPULATION OF OVER ONE MILLION SHALL
 PROVIDE THE SAME INFORMATION IN  HAITIAN  CREOLE  THAT  IT  PROVIDES  IN
 LANGUAGES  OTHER  THAN ENGLISH ON ITS WEBSITE. IT SHALL ALSO PRODUCE AND
 DISSEMINATE CITYWIDE A BOOKLET THAT INCLUDES: (A) A  VOTER  REGISTRATION
 FORM IN ENGLISH WITH INSTRUCTIONS IN HAITIAN CREOLE; (B) INSTRUCTIONS IN
 HAITIAN  CREOLE  REGARDING  THE  CRITERIA  AND  APPLICATION  PROCESS FOR
 OBTAINING AN ABSENTEE BALLOT; AND  (C)  A  SECTION  WITH  GENERAL  VOTER
 INFORMATION IN HAITIAN CREOLE INCLUDING FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS. SUCH
 BOARD MAY INCLUDE OTHER LANGUAGES ON ITS WEBSITE AND IN SUCH BOOKLET.
   §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
 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.
                                                            LBD06224-01-1

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