Bill Text: NY A09660 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 9660

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires any website or mobile application associated with an electronic benefit transfer system to be offered in over one hundred languages, including both common and esoteric languages.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-27 - referred to social services [A09660 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09660-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9660

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 27, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. BERGER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Social Services

        AN  ACT  to  amend the social services law, in relation to requiring any
          website or mobile application associated with  an  electronic  benefit
          transfer system to be offered in multiple languages

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

     1    Section 1. Section 21-a of the  social  services  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
     3    3.  (a) Any companion website or mobile application associated with an
     4  electronic benefit transfer system implemented pursuant to this  section
     5  that is accessible by benefit recipients shall be made available in over
     6  one  hundred  languages, including both common and esoteric languages as
     7  identified by the department.
     8    (b) Any companion website or mobile  application  associated  with  an
     9  electronic  benefit transfer system implemented pursuant to this section
    10  that is accessible by benefit recipients shall provide  for  the  trans-
    11  lation  of  any  documents  made available for viewing on such companion
    12  website or mobile application in over one hundred  languages,  including
    13  both common and esoteric languages as identified by the department.
    14    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    15  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    16  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
    17  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
    18  on or before such effective date.




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