Virginia Senate Bill 270 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 4 2022 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2022-03-08 - Left in General Laws
Pending: House General Laws Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Administration of government; language access equity; report. Establishes the Interagency Language Access Working Group in the Office of the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with the following membership: the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, the Director of the Office of the Children's Ombudsman, the Governor's Secretaries, and six nonlegislative citizen members representing organizations that represent individuals with language access needs. The Working Group is established for the purpose of maximizing state policies, resources, technical assistance, and procurement practices to further language access and equity in the Commonwealth and its state government agencies. The bill also requires each state agency to designate a language access coordinator who will be responsible for the agency's annual language access report, the requirements of which are set out in the bill. The Secretary of Administration is directed to establish criteria for state agencies to procure language interpretation and translation services and to establish a policy for compensating multilingual state employees who are required as part of their job to provide interpretation, translation, or other bilingual skills at least once a month.

Administration of government; language access equity, report.

Sen. Ghazala Hashmi [D]

Sen. Jennifer Boysko [D]

Sen. Jennifer McClellan [D]

2022-02-24 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N) (Y: 5 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-02-07 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-N) (Y: 21 N: 19 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 4-N) (Y: 11 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-01-19 - Senate - Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology (8-Y 7-N) (Y: 8 N: 7 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-03-08	House	Left in General Laws
2022-02-24	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N)
2022-02-23	House	Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #1
2022-02-21	House	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2022-02-21	House	Read first time
2022-02-21	House	Placed on Calendar
2022-02-07	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-N)
2022-02-04	Senate	Read second time and engrossed
2022-02-03	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2022-02-02	Senate	Reported from Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 4-N)
2022-01-19	Senate	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
2022-01-19	Senate	Reported from General Laws and Technology (8-Y 7-N)
2022-01-11	Senate	Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
2022-01-11	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104256D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	203.2:6	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	435.13	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	604.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB270
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB270+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+oth+SB270F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+S12V0016+SB0270
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+S05V0062+SB0270
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+SV0211SB0270+SB0270
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+SV0250SB0270+SB0270
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+H1101V0060+SB0270