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Relating to the licensure of employers providing interpreting and transliterating services to employees
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 31, 2024
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 6, 2024
- Done: House committeeFebruary 13, 2024
- Done: Passes the HouseFebruary 22, 202493–1
- Done: Senate committeeMarch 13, 2024
- Done: Passes the SenateApril 2, 202449–0
- Done: To the GovernorApril 19, 2024
- Done: Signed into lawApril 19, 2024
Signed into law What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Companies that provide sign language interpreting services to their own employees can now apply for a special business license. People working for these licensed companies can provide these services without needing their own individual licenses, as long as they still meet the same professional standards. The state board will create the rules for how these business licenses are given out or taken away.1
Read the official explanation
This bill allows an employer that employs a person to provide interpreting or transliterating services to the employer’s employees to be licensed by the board of sign language interpreters and transliterators. The bill also allows a person employed by an employer licensed pursuant to Code chapter 154E (interpreters and transliterators) to provide interpreting and transliterating services to the employer’s employees without receiving an individual license to practice. However, the bill requires such a person to meet the requirements for individual licensure. The bill requires the board to adopt rules for the process of applying for, granting, suspending, reinstating, renewing, and revoking a license issued to an employer.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 27, 2024. Meeting: Tuesday, March 5 · 8:30 AM · Room 217 Conference Room.
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