Relating to interpreters and translators for limited-English-proficient, deaf, and hard-of-hearing persons in certain legal proceedings, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedFebruary 9, 2021
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   Done: SubcommitteeMarch 9, 2021
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   Done: Senate committeeMarch 1, 2021
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   Done: Passes the SenateApril 13, 202145–0
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   Skipped: House committeeSkipped
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   Done: Passes the HouseMarch 9, 2021
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   Done: To the GovernorApril 30, 2021
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   Done: Signed into lawApril 30, 2021

HF 707 became law → The same legislation passed as HF 707, so this version was set aside. Go to HF 707 What’s a funnel?

Senate subcommittee

Named March 9, 2021. It hasn’t reported yet.

• Sen. Julian B. Garrett R
• Sen. Joe Bolkcom D
• Sen. Jeff Reichman REmail

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Fiscal note

Cost: up to $500,000 Compare with other bills

House File 707 is estimated to increase funding and costs to the Jury and Witness Revolving Fund by approximately $500,000 beginning in FY 2022. Currently, the State Public Defender pays these interpreter fees from the Indigent Defense Fund. The Bill will transfer those costs to the Revolving Fund. As a result, the Indigent Defense Fund will experience a savings of approximately the same amount.

• Final Fiscal Note — Court Interpreters · June 8, 2021
• Court Interpreters · March 11, 2021
• Court Interpreters · March 8, 2021
• Court Interpreters · March 3, 2021
• Court Interpreters · February 17, 2021

Nonpartisan cost estimates from the Legislative Services Agency’s Fiscal Services Division. The newest is first. Reading a fiscal note

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Where this legislation came from and where it went: earlier tries, the versions it moved through this Assembly, and later bills built on it.

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