Amend CSSB 380 (senate committee printing) as follows:
(1) In the recital to SECTION 2 of the bill, amending Section 57.002, Government Code (page 1, line 31), strike "Subsection (g)" and substitute "Subsections (g), (h), and (i)".
(2) In SECTION 2 of the bill, immediately following added Section 57.002(g), Government Code (page 1, between lines 43 and 44), insert the following:
(h) Each county auditor, or other individual designated by the commissioners court of a county, in consultation with the district and county clerks shall submit to the Office of Court Administration of the Texas Judicial System, in the manner prescribed by the office, information on the money the county spent during the preceding fiscal year to provide court-ordered interpretation services in civil and criminal proceedings. The information must include:
(1) the number of interpreters appointed;
(2) the number of interpreters appointed for parties or witnesses who are indigent;
(3) the amount of money the county spent to provide court-ordered interpretation services; and
(4) for civil proceedings, whether a party to the proceeding filed a statement of inability to afford payment of court costs under Rule 145, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, applicable to the appointment of an interpreter.
(i) Not later than December 1 of each year, the Office of Court Administration of the Texas Judicial System shall:
(1) submit to the legislature a report that aggregates by county the information submitted under Subsection (h) for the preceding fiscal year; and
(2) publish the report on the office's Internet website.