Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to education [A00407 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Contact	Phone	District	Sponsorship	State Profile	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Assemblymember Nily Rozic [D]	Primary	Email	518-455-5172	HD-025	Sponsored Bills	State Profile	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn [D]	Cosponsor	Email	518-455-5385	HD-042	Sponsored Bills	State Profile	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember William Colton [D]	Cosponsor	Email	518-455-5828	HD-047	Sponsored Bills	State Profile	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Jo Simon [D]	Cosponsor	Email	518-455-5426	HD-052	Sponsored Bills	State Profile	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember David Weprin [D]	Cosponsor	Email	518-455-5806	HD-024	Sponsored Bills	State Profile	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Zohran Kwame Mamdani [D]	Cosponsor	Email	518-455-5014	HD-036	Sponsored Bills	State Profile	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Rebecca Seawright [D]	Cosponsor	Email	518-455-5676	HD-076	Sponsored Bills	State Profile	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Phara Souffrant Forrest [D]	Cosponsor	Email	518-455-5325	HD-057	Sponsored Bills	State Profile	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Peter Abbate [D]	Primary	Inactive	Inactive	HD-049	Sponsored Bills	Inactive	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Vivian Cook [D]	Primary	Email	518-455-4203	HD-032	Sponsored Bills	State Profile	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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