Skip to content
A3205Assembly2017-2018 SessionSame asS3085

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

Sponsor Felix OrtizAD-51
Status
In Assembly Committee
Governmental Operations
Impact
4/10
Low
Passage
0%

Bill progress

Step 2 of 7

In committee · Governmental Operations

What's happening

This bill requires New York state agencies to provide website links to non-English materials for services offered to the public.

Why it matters

The daily · weekday mornings

Albany, before your first meeting.

Every bill that moved yesterday, summarized in a sentence and ranked by impact. The Albany Scorecard follows on Sundays.

Free. Unsubscribe in one click. Want alerts on specific bills? Create an account.

Who cares

Headline styles

Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Felix Ortiz

Assembly Member · Assembly District 51

No co-sponsors yet.

History

  1. Referred to governmental operations
  2. Referred to governmental operations

Companion bill

The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.

S3085Senate

Link Websites to Translations

In Senate Committee · Finance · Sponsor José M. Serrano

Impact 5 · Moderate0% to pass

Full text

1 pageUnderlined is new[Struck] is removedOfficial text on nysenate.gov ↗

STATE OF NEW YORK

3205

2017-2018 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

January 27, 2017

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 agencies to provide certain information in non-English languages

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 164-e to read as follows:

§ 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, division, 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.

§ 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.

LBD07770-01-7

Reflowed for reading: line numbers and page breaks removed. Cite the official text.

Summaries, headlines and scores are AI-generated from the official bill text. How we score bills. Source: NYS Open Legislation.