---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requires the office of court administration to promulgate certain housing court documents in the seven most common languages in the city of New York"
description: "Requires the office of court administration to promulgate certain housing court documents in the seven most common languages in the city of New York."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "S 1951"
citation: "New York S 1951 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["BAILEY"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 22
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-18"
last_action: "2020-10-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2348a1c2-b6e7-473c-a58c-af611b55b26b"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/S1951"
source_hash: "ee7ce339f58abe0c1887989bd5183535df7f5e2e5b2edfa70555242926d7c95e"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York S 1951 (2019-2020) — Requires the office of court administration to promulgate certain housing court documents in the seven most common languages in the city of New York

Requires the office of court administration to promulgate certain housing court documents in the seven most common languages in the city of New York.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S1951** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S1951&term=2019&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Rules Vote — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote — **61–1** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **140–2** (pass) · lower
- Judiciary Vote — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote — **61–1** (pass) · upper
- Finance Vote — **23–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- BAILEY — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-18** REFERRED TO JUDICIARY `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-18** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-18** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1594
- **2019-06-18** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2019-06-18** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2019-06-19** REFERRED TO JUDICIARY `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-08** DIED IN ASSEMBLY
- **2020-01-08** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2020-01-08** REFERRED TO JUDICIARY `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-22** 1ST REPORT CAL.243
- **2020-01-23** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2020-01-27** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2020-03-04** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2020-03-04** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2020-03-04** REFERRED TO JUDICIARY `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-21** SUBSTITUTED FOR A2145
- **2020-07-21** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.330
- **2020-07-21** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2020-07-21** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2020-09-25** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2020-10-07** SIGNED CHAP.223 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2348a1c2-b6e7-473c-a58c-af611b55b26b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).