By: Barrientos S.B. No. 350 73R4299 CAS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to interpreters for deaf and hearing impaired students in 1-3 public schools. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 13, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 13.914 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 13.914. INTERPRETERS. (a) Beginning with the 1-8 1997-1998 school year, an individual employed as an interpreter by 1-9 a school district for a deaf or hearing impaired student must be 1-10 certified as an interpreter by the Texas Commission for the Deaf 1-11 and Hearing Impaired or have certification waived by the 1-12 commission, as provided by Section 81.007, Human Resources Code. 1-13 (b) The State Board of Education, after consulting with the 1-14 Texas Commission for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired, shall establish 1-15 minimum salaries that interpreters employed by a school district 1-16 shall be paid. The minimum salaries shall be based on the levels 1-17 of certification under Section 81.007, Human Resources Code. 1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.