STATE OF NEW YORK
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7111
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 8, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Election Law
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 a language other than English at
6 home using the most recent United States Census data. If fifteen percent
7 of the number of voting age citizens who speak a language other than
8 English at home, the board of elections must provide for at least one
9 poll worker that speaks such language at polling places in the district.
10 b. For any currently existing election district, the board of
11 elections shall determine the number of citizens of voting age who speak
12 a language other than English at home using the most recent United
13 States Census data. If fifteen percent of the number of voting age citi-
14 zens who speak a language other than English at home, the board of
15 elections must provide for at least one poll worker that speaks such
16 language at polling places in the district.
17 c. Upon voter request, the poll worker assigned to an election
18 district pursuant to paragraphs a and b of this subdivision, shall
19 provide translation services to the voter in the language that led to
20 their assignment to a given election district.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06034-01-9
