Ghazala Hashmi
- Democratic
- Senator
- District 15
Administration of government; language accessequity; report. Establishes the Interagency Language Access WorkingGroup in the Office of the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusionwith the following membership: the Director of Diversity, Equity,and Inclusion, the Director of the Office of the Children's Ombudsman,the Governor's Secretaries, and six nonlegislative citizen membersrepresenting organizations that represent individuals with languageaccess needs. The Working Group is established for the purpose ofmaximizing state policies, resources, technical assistance, and procurementpractices to further language access and equity in the Commonwealthand its state government agencies. The bill also requires each stateagency to designate a language access coordinator who will be responsiblefor the agency's annual language access report, the requirementsof which are set out in the bill. The Secretary of Administrationis directed to establish criteria for state agencies to procurelanguage interpretation and translation services and to establisha policy for compensating multilingual state employees who are requiredas part of their job to provide interpretation, translation, or other bilingual skills at least once a month.
Left in General Laws
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N)
Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #1
Referred to Committee on General Laws
Read first time
Placed on Calendar
Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-N)
Read second time and engrossed
Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 4-N)
Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
Reported from General Laws and Technology (8-Y 7-N)
Impact statement from DPB (SB270)
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104256D
Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
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Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104256D | PDF HTML |
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Fiscal Impact Statement: SB270F122.PDF |
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