Requires any website or mobile application associated with an electronic benefit transfer system to be offered in the twelve most common non-English languages spoken by limited-English proficient individuals in the state, based on data in the most recent American Community Survey published by the United States Census Bureau.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5807--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 3, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services -- commit-
tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
mitted to said committee
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 the twelve most common non-English
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 the
6 twelve most common non-English languages spoken by limited-English
7 proficient individuals in the state, based on data in the most recent
8 American Community Survey published by the United States Census Bureau.
9 (b) Any companion website or mobile application associated with an
10 electronic benefit transfer system implemented pursuant to this section
11 that is accessible by benefit recipients shall provide for the trans-
12 lation of any documents made available for viewing on such companion
13 website or mobile application in the twelve most common non-English
14 languages spoken by limited-English proficient individuals in the state,
15 based on data in the most recent American Community Survey published by
16 the United States Census Bureau.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
18 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
19 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
20 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
21 on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05621-06-5
