New York Senate Bill 1516

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2023 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION
Pending: Senate Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Establishes the "education equity act" which provides language assistance to parents or guardians who have children enrolled in public school and whose primary language is not English; defines terms; creates an annual language assistance plan to assess language needs in the district; requires the department of education to establish web pages detailing the rights of parents to translation services in each covered language; requires annual reports by each school district to the local board of education.

Establishes the "education equity act" which provides language assistance to parents or guardians who have children enrolled in public school and whose primary language is not English; defines terms; creates an annual language assistance plan to assess language needs in the district; requires the department of education to establish web pages detailing the rights of parents to translation services in each covered language; requires annual reports by each school district to the local board of education.

Sen. Jose Serrano [D]	Sen. Jamaal Bailey [D]	Sen. Neil Breslin [D]	Sen. Brian Kavanagh [D]
Sen. John Mannion [D]	Sen. Jessica Ramos [D]	Sen. Julia Salazar [D]	Sen. James Sanders [D]
Sen. Luis Sepulveda [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-01-03	Senate	REFERRED TO EDUCATION
2023-01-12	Senate	REFERRED TO EDUCATION

A00456 (Same As) 2024-01-03 - referred to education

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S1516
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=S01516&term=2023&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#S01516