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HB 1092 Voting materials; language alternatives.

Introduced by: Robert H. Brink | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Voting materials; language alternatives. Provides that the State Board of Elections may prescribe voting materials in a language other than English if the Commonwealth or a locality is required to provide such materials pursuant to bilingual election requirements of federal law (42 U.S.C. § 1973aa-1a and 42 USC § 1973b(f)(4).). The federal law may become applicable after the Director of the Census determines that more than five percent of the voting age citizens of a state or locality are members of a single language minority and are limited-English proficient, or more than 10,000 voting age citizens of a locality are members of a single language minority and are limited-English proficient, and that the illiteracy rate of the citizens of the language minority as a group is higher than the national illiteracy rate. The bill anticipates the possibility that the Director may determine, following the 2000 Census that one or more Virginia localities have become subject to the federal bilingual voting materials requirements. The Director's determination is based on information from the long-form census questionnaire and will be published in the Federal Register. His determinations following the 1990 Census were published September 18, 1992. This bill is identical to SB 214.


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