By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 1118
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to examinations for interpreter certification conducted by
1-2 the Board for Evaluation of Interpreters.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (i), Section 81.007, Human Resources
1-5 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (i) <The board shall conduct the interpreter examinations in
1-7 Austin at the commission's office or in other space owned or leased
1-8 by the state that can be obtained free of charge.> The board shall
1-9 determine the frequency with which it will conduct the interpreter
1-10 examinations. The board shall conduct the interpreter
1-11 examinations:
1-12 (1) in Austin at the commission's office or in other
1-13 space owned or leased by the state that can be obtained free of
1-14 charge; or
1-15 (2) in other cities in this state in space that can be
1-16 obtained free of charge.
1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-18 SECTION 3. 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.