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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9660
IN ASSEMBLY
March 27, 2024
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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.
LBD14810-01-4