File #: Int 0898-2023    Version: * Name: Translating the citizen’s air complaint program portal into the designated citywide languages.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfronts
On agenda: 2/2/2023
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to translating the citizen's air complaint program portal into the designated citywide languages
Sponsors: Alexa Avilés, Tiffany Cabán, Shahana K. Hanif, Lincoln Restler, Eric Dinowitz, Amanda Farías, Justin L. Brannan, Marjorie Velázquez, Shaun Abreu, Shekar Krishnan, Crystal Hudson, Sandy Nurse, Nantasha M. Williams, Kevin C. Riley, Gale A. Brewer, Kristin Richardson Jordan, Althea V. Stevens, Farah N. Louis, Lynn C. Schulman, Mercedes Narcisse, Julie Won, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Christopher Marte, Erik D. Bottcher, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Julie Menin, Rita C. Joseph, Sandra Ung, Kamillah Hanks, Charles Barron, Chi A. Ossé, Rafael Salamanca, Jr., Francisco P. Moya, Carmen N. De La Rosa, Oswald Feliz
Council Member Sponsors: 35
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Environmental Protection to translate the Citizen’s Air Complaint portal into the languages other than English that are most commonly spoken by residents of the City with limited English proficiency.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 898, 2. Int. No. 898, 3. February 2, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-2-23, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - February 2, 2023, 6. Committee Report 6/15/23, 7. Hearing Testimony 6/15/23, 8. Hearing Transcript 6/15/23

Int. No. 898

 

By Council Members Avilés, Cabán, Hanif, Restler, Dinowitz, Farías, Brannan, Velázquez, Abreu, Krishnan, Hudson, Nurse, Williams, Riley, Brewer, Richardson Jordan, Stevens, Louis, Schulman, Narcisse, Won, Sanchez, Marte, Bottcher, Gutiérrez, Menin, Joseph, Ung, Hanks, Barron, Ossé, Salamanca, Moya, De La Rosa and Feliz

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to translating the citizen’s air complaint program portal into the designated citywide languages

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subdivision (f) of section 24-182 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 58 for the year 2018, is amended to read as follows:

(f) [On or before January 1, 2019, the] The department shall publish on the city’s website information related to best practices for filing citizen complaints pursuant to this section. Such information shall include but need not be limited to guidance on procedures for filing such complaints and for gathering supporting documentation. The department shall make the contents of such website, and every other website, portal, or other resource maintained in furtherance of the citizen’s complaint program established pursuant to this section, available in each of the designated citywide languages, as defined in subdivision a of section 23-1101.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 180 days after it becomes law.

 

 

 

 

 

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