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Int 0898-2023

Translating the citizen’s air complaint program portal into the designated citywide languages.

IntroductionFiledCommittee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfrontsintroduced 2023-02-02

Filed — closed without being enacted.

Official record · Legistar

Agenda: 2023-02-02Passed: 2023-12-31

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.

Committee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and WaterfrontsDepartment of Environmental Protection and Office of Long Term Planning and Sustainability and Office of Recovery and Resiliency.

How it compares

10% of similar bills passed

5 passed · 45 died

This bill: 332 days in committee

Similar bills: median 584 days · 419 days when passed

Sponsors (35)

Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2023-02-02 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2023-02-02 · City Council
ActionRe-referred to Committee by Council
2023-03-07 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2023-06-15 · Committee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfronts
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2023-06-15 · Committee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfronts
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2023-12-31 · City Council

Heard at (3)

Committee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfronts · 2023-06-15 · 1:00 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Committee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfronts · 2023-05-31 · 1:00 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
City Council · 2023-02-02 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall

Attachments (8)

Full text
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. JGP LS #10112 11/14/22 2:00p 1 1