2691 AMS KING SACK 356

HB 2691 - S AMD TO S-6958.1 1288

By Senator King

ADOPTED 03/04/2020

On page 7, after line 29, insert the following:

"(12) By December 1, 2020, the department of social and health services, the department of children, youth, and families, the department of labor industries, the health care authority, and the department of enterprise services must report to the legislature on the following:

(a) Each agency's current process for procuring spoken language interpreters and whether the changes in Chapter 253, Laws of 2018 have been implemented;

(b) If Chapter 253, Laws of 2018 has not been fully implemented by an agency, the barriers to implementation the agency has encountered and recommendations for removing the barriers to implementation;

(c) The impacts of the changes to the bargaining units for language access providers in Chapter 253, Laws of 2018; and

(d) Recommendations on how to improve the procurement and accessibility of language access providers."

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