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Committee hears bill to update court interpreter rules, AOC and court officials urge passage
Summary
Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 1174 would modernize Washington's court-interpreter statutes to clarify appointment, payment, terminology and AOC responsibilities.
Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 1174, which revises state law governing court interpreters, was the subject of a public hearing before the Washington Senate Law & Justice Committee. Staff counsel Ryan Giannini summarized the bill as an Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) request that modernizes terminology, clarifies appointment processes and payment responsibilities, updates reimbursement rates and requires language access plans from trial courts prior to AOC reimbursement.
Ryan Giannini, staff counsel to the committee, told members the bill “updates statutory provisions…
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