S 4280: Relates to providing Haitian Creole language voting materials.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4280 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 3, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. PARKER, COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to providing Haitian Creole language voting materials The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The election law is amended by adding a new section 3-507 2 to read as follows: 3 § 3-507. Boards of elections; voting materials in Haitian Creole. A 4 board of elections in a city with a population of over one million shall 5 provide the same information in Haitian Creole that it provides in 6 languages other than English on its website. It shall also produce and 7 disseminate citywide a booklet that includes: (a) a voter registration 8 form in English with instructions in Haitian Creole; (b) instructions in 9 Haitian Creole regarding the criteria and application process for 10 obtaining an absentee ballot; and (c) a section with general voter 11 information in Haitian Creole including frequently asked questions. Such 12 board may include other languages on its website and in such booklet. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 14 ing that date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08029-01-5