STATE OF NEW YORK
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8891
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 10, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. VANEL -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to including speakers of
Haitian Creole and persons of Middle Eastern or North African heritage
as language minorities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5-a of section 17-204 of the election law, as
2 added by chapter 226 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
3 5-a. "Language minorities" or "language-minority group" means persons
4 who are American Indian, Asian American, Alaskan Natives, speakers of
5 Haitian Creole, or of Spanish heritage. "Language minorities" or
6 "language-minority group" shall also mean persons of Middle Eastern or
7 North African heritage as defined by the federal office of management
8 and budget's statistical policy directive fifteen.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
10 law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01724-03-5
