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Rep. Kathy Fralick asks committee to study statewide communication access for people with hearing loss
Summary
Representative Kathy Fralick urged the House Human Services Committee to advance House Bill 10‑97, a one‑section interim-study bill to identify gaps and low‑cost technology solutions that would improve access for North Dakotans who are deaf, hard of hearing or have other hearing differences.
Representative Kathy Fralick, R‑District 15, asked the House Human Services Committee to give House Bill 10 97 a "due pass" recommendation and to commission an interim legislative study on communication access for people with hearing loss.
Fralick told the committee the bill is a single‑section study request intended to identify practical, low‑cost ways state and local agencies, businesses and nonprofits can provide effective communication for people who are deaf, hard of hearing or who have other hearing differences. "This bill is born of my own frustration," she said, adding her regular employment is with the North Dakota School for the Deaf in Devil's Lake and that she personally will not financially benefit from the bill.
The bill would convene a stakeholder group including people with lived experience, interpreters, education staff and IT professionals to catalog barriers and possible…
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