Details Meeting Name: Committee on Governmental Operations (inactive) Agenda status: Final Meeting date/time: 12/21/2022 10:30 AM Minutes status: Final   Meeting location: Committee Room - City Hall VOTE Published agenda: Agenda Published minutes: Minutes   Meeting video: Video   Attachments: CLICK ANY FILE # BELOW (in blue) TO ACCESS LEGISLATION AND ATTACHMENTS Meeting Items (13) 13 records Group Clear sorting Clear grouping Group by Type Group by Result Export Export to Excel Export to PDF Export to Word Show: All agenda items Legislation only All agenda items File # Ver. Prime Sponsor Agenda # Agenda Note Name Type Summary Action Result Action Details Multimedia                     Roll call Not available Int 0382-2022 * Gale A. Brewer   Proposed Int. No. 382-A Requiring certain agencies to publish guidance on responding to settlement offers, translate such guidance into the designated citywide languages, and notify settlement offer recipients about such guidance. Introduction This bill would require each settlement offer sent by the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to be accompanied by a multilingual notice that: (1) informs the recipient that they are receiving a settlement offer because they are being charged with a violation of the law; and (2) directs the recipient (via a QR code or similar mechanism) to a portion of the agency’s website with plain language information about the recipient’s options for responding to the settlement offer. Both the notice and the online information would need to be translated into each of the designated citywide languages, which are the top ten languages spoken by New Yorkers with limited English proficiency. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0382-2022 * Gale A. Brewer     Requiring certain agencies to publish guidance on responding to settlement offers, translate such guidance into the designated citywide languages, and notify settlement offer recipients about such guidance. Introduction This bill would require each settlement offer sent by the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to be accompanied by a multilingual notice that: (1) informs the recipient that they are receiving a settlement offer because they are being charged with a violation of the law; and (2) directs the recipient (via a QR code or similar mechanism) to a portion of the agency’s website with plain language information about the recipient’s options for responding to the settlement offer. Both the notice and the online information would need to be translated into each of the designated citywide languages, which are the top ten languages spoken by New Yorkers with limited English proficiency. Amendment Proposed by Comm   Action details Not available Int 0382-2022 * Gale A. Brewer     Requiring certain agencies to publish guidance on responding to settlement offers, translate such guidance into the designated citywide languages, and notify settlement offer recipients about such guidance. Introduction This bill would require each settlement offer sent by the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to be accompanied by a multilingual notice that: (1) informs the recipient that they are receiving a settlement offer because they are being charged with a violation of the law; and (2) directs the recipient (via a QR code or similar mechanism) to a portion of the agency’s website with plain language information about the recipient’s options for responding to the settlement offer. Both the notice and the online information would need to be translated into each of the designated citywide languages, which are the top ten languages spoken by New Yorkers with limited English proficiency. Amended by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0382-2022 A Gale A. Brewer     Requiring certain agencies to publish guidance on responding to settlement offers, translate such guidance into the designated citywide languages, and notify settlement offer recipients about such guidance. Introduction This bill would require each settlement offer sent by the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to be accompanied by a multilingual notice that: (1) informs the recipient that they are receiving a settlement offer because they are being charged with a violation of the law; and (2) directs the recipient (via a QR code or similar mechanism) to a portion of the agency’s website with plain language information about the recipient’s options for responding to the settlement offer. Both the notice and the online information would need to be translated into each of the designated citywide languages, which are the top ten languages spoken by New Yorkers with limited English proficiency. Approved by Committee Pass Action details Not available Int 0697-2022 * Sandra Ung   Proposed Int. No. 697-A Providing supplemental language access services in connection with temporary language needs. Introduction This bill would expand upon the City’s Language Access Law by requiring agencies to provide services in additional languages, as necessary, to respond to an emergency in which a large number of people who do not speak one of the designated citywide languages are arriving in the City and seeking city services. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0697-2022 * Sandra Ung     Providing supplemental language access services in connection with temporary language needs. Introduction This bill would expand upon the City’s Language Access Law by requiring agencies to provide services in additional languages, as necessary, to respond to an emergency in which a large number of people who do not speak one of the designated citywide languages are arriving in the City and seeking city services. Amendment Proposed by Comm   Action details Not available Int 0697-2022 * Sandra Ung     Providing supplemental language access services in connection with temporary language needs. Introduction This bill would expand upon the City’s Language Access Law by requiring agencies to provide services in additional languages, as necessary, to respond to an emergency in which a large number of people who do not speak one of the designated citywide languages are arriving in the City and seeking city services. Amended by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0697-2022 A Sandra Ung     Providing supplemental language access services in connection with temporary language needs. Introduction This bill would expand upon the City’s Language Access Law by requiring agencies to provide services in additional languages, as necessary, to respond to an emergency in which a large number of people who do not speak one of the designated citywide languages are arriving in the City and seeking city services. Approved by Committee Pass Action details Not available Int 0700-2022 * Julie Won   Proposed Int. No. 700-A Translation services for compliance materials. Introduction This bill would amend the Language Access Law to require agencies that provide direct public services to produce translations of written materials that the agency distributes when enforcing New York City laws and carrying out compliance actions. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0700-2022 * Julie Won     Translation services for compliance materials. Introduction This bill would amend the Language Access Law to require agencies that provide direct public services to produce translations of written materials that the agency distributes when enforcing New York City laws and carrying out compliance actions. Amendment Proposed by Comm   Action details Not available Int 0700-2022 * Julie Won     Translation services for compliance materials. Introduction This bill would amend the Language Access Law to require agencies that provide direct public services to produce translations of written materials that the agency distributes when enforcing New York City laws and carrying out compliance actions. Amended by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0700-2022 A Julie Won     Translation services for compliance materials. Introduction This bill would amend the Language Access Law to require agencies that provide direct public services to produce translations of written materials that the agency distributes when enforcing New York City laws and carrying out compliance actions. Approved by Committee Pass Action details Not available