Relates to providing translators at certain polling place locations if fifteen percent of the number of voting age citizens who speak the same language other than English at home reside in the district where such polling place is located.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2586--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 21, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. MAYER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections -- recommitted
to the Committee on Elections in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
-- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to providing translators
at certain polling place locations
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 4-100 of the election law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
3 6. a. In creating, consolidating, dividing or altering any election
4 district, the board of elections shall determine the number of citizens
5 of voting age in the district who speak the same language other than
6 English at home using the most recent United States Census data. If
7 fifteen percent of the number of voting age citizens who speak the same
8 language other than English at home, the board of elections must provide
9 for at least one poll worker that speaks such language at polling places
10 in the district.
11 b. For any currently existing election district, the board of
12 elections shall determine the number of citizens of voting age who speak
13 the same language other than English at home using the most recent
14 United States Census data. If fifteen percent of the number of voting
15 age citizens who speak the same language other than English at home, the
16 board of elections must provide for at least one poll worker that speaks
17 such language at polling places in the district.
18 c. Upon voter request, the poll worker assigned to an election
19 district pursuant to paragraphs a and b of this subdivision, shall
20 provide translation services to the voter in the language that led to
21 their assignment to a given election district.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02721-03-6
