Bill Text: TX SB380 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to payment of certain court costs associated with interpreters.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-23 - Effective immediately [SB380 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB380-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to payment of certain court costs associated with interpreters.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-23 - Effective immediately [SB380 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB380-Comm_Sub.html
By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 380 | |
(In the Senate - Filed January 11, 2023; February 15, 2023, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; | ||
March 13, 2023, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 13, 2023, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 380 | By: Zaffirini |
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relating to payment of certain court costs associated with | ||
interpreters. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 57.002, Government Code, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 57.002. APPOINTMENT OF INTERPRETER OR CART PROVIDER; | ||
CART PROVIDER LIST; PAYMENT OF INTERPRETER COSTS. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 57.002, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: | ||
(g) A party to a proceeding in a court who files a statement | ||
of inability to afford payment of court costs under Rule 145, Texas | ||
Rules of Civil Procedure, is not required to provide an interpreter | ||
at the party's expense or pay the costs associated with the services | ||
of an interpreter appointed under this section that are incurred | ||
during the course of the action, unless the statement has been | ||
contested and the court has ordered the party to pay costs pursuant | ||
to Rule 145. Nothing in this subsection is intended to apply to | ||
interpreter services or other auxiliary aids for individuals who | ||
are deaf, hard of hearing, or have communication disabilities, | ||
which shall be provided to those individuals free of charge | ||
pursuant to federal and state laws. | ||
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies to an | ||
action pending on the effective date of this Act or filed on or | ||
after the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
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