STATE OF NEW YORK
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8742
IN ASSEMBLY
January 11, 2022
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Introduced by M. of A. NIOU -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the state technology law, in relation to requiring the
office of information technology services to cooperate with all state
agencies in the implementation of language translation technology
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 8-a of section 103 of the state technology law,
2 as amended by a chapter of the laws of 2021 amending the state technolo-
3 gy law relating to requiring the office of information technology
4 services to cooperate with all state agencies in the implementation of
5 language translation technology, as proposed in legislative bills
6 numbers S. 4716-A and A. 6215-A, is amended to read as follows:
7 8-a. (a) To advise and assist state agencies in the implementation of
8 language translation technology on state agency websites containing
9 information about the novel coronavirus ("COVID-19") or programs, bene-
10 fits or services related to COVID-19 within [thirty] sixty days of the
11 effective date of this subdivision; and on all state agency websites
12 within [ninety days] six months of the effective date of this subdivi-
13 sion.
14 (b) Such language translation technology shall, at a minimum, allow
15 users to translate the text of state agency websites into at least the
16 twelve most common non-English languages spoken by individuals with
17 limited-English proficiency in the state of New York, based on United
18 States census data.
19 (c) As used in this subdivision, the term "state agency website" shall
20 mean an internet website operated by or for a state agency. Such term
21 shall include those websites operated on behalf of state agencies by
22 other public or private entities, but shall not include any portions of
23 the internet outside the control of the state agency.
24 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
25 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2021 amending the state technology
26 law relating to requiring the office of information technology services
27 to cooperate with all state agencies in the implementation of language
28 translation technology, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.
29 4716-A and A. 6215-A, takes effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09265-05-2
