S 441 NY
Includes certain persons of Middle Eastern and North African heritage and speakers of Haitian Creole as language minorities
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Includes certain persons of Middle Eastern and North African heritage and speakers of Haitian Creole as language minorities.
Sponsor (1)
- Zellnor Myrie Democratic · primary
Action history (17)
- Jan 8, 2025 REFERRED TO ELECTIONS · upper
- Jun 6, 2025 AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO ELECTIONS · upper
- Jun 6, 2025 PRINT NUMBER 441A · upper
- Jun 11, 2025 COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES · upper
- Jun 11, 2025 ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1795 · upper
- Jun 11, 2025 PASSED SENATE · upper
- Jun 11, 2025 DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY · upper
- Jun 11, 2025 REFERRED TO ELECTION LAW · lower
- Jan 7, 2026 DIED IN ASSEMBLY · lower
- Jan 7, 2026 RETURNED TO SENATE · lower
- Jan 7, 2026 REFERRED TO ELECTIONS · upper
- Apr 21, 2026 1ST REPORT CAL.789 · upper
- Apr 22, 2026 2ND REPORT CAL. · upper
- Apr 27, 2026 ADVANCED TO THIRD READING · upper
- Apr 28, 2026 PASSED SENATE · upper
- Apr 28, 2026 DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY · upper
- Apr 28, 2026 REFERRED TO ELECTION LAW · lower
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  SPONSOR MYRIE   COSPNSR   MLTSPNSR   Amd §17-204, El L   Includes certain persons of Middle Eastern and North African heritage and speakers of Haitian Creole as language minorities.
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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________
441--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025 ___________
Introduced by Sen. MYRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to including speakers of Haitian Creole and persons of Middle Eastern or North African heritage as language minorities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5-a of section 17-204 of the election law, as 2 added by chapter 226 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows: 3 5-a. "Language minorities" or "language-minority group" means persons 4 who are American Indian, Asian American, Alaskan Natives , speakers of 5 Haitian Creole, or of Spanish heritage . "Language minorities" or 6 "language-minority group" shall also mean persons of Middle Eastern or 7 North African heritage as defined by the federal office of management 8 and budget's statistical policy directive fifteen . 9 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a 10 law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01724-02-5
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