STAND. COM. REP. NO. 504
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2013
RE: H.B. No. 266
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2013
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 266 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LANGUAGE ACCESS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
(1) Requires the Office of Language Access, in collaboration with other state agencies, to implement a Multilingual Website Pilot Project that will improve language access to information provided online for limited English proficient persons seeking information about government and government-funded services in the State of Hawaii;
(2) Requires the Executive Director of the Office of Language Access to administer a Statewide Language Access Resource Center that will address the interpretation and translation needs of the state; and
(3) Provides appropriations for the Statewide Language Access Resource Center and the Multilingual Website pilot project.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Clarifying that the roster of available language interpreters and translators maintained by a Statewide Language Access Resource Center list any of the qualifications and credentials of interpreters or translators;
(2) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 266, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 266, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,
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____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair |
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