AB 2408 – Bilingual Services
Status: Vetoed by Governor (2004-2005)
Under the Dymally-Alatorre Bilingual Services Act, every state agency, except the State Compensation Insurance Fund, directly involved in the furnishing of information or the rendering of services to the public whereby contact is made with a substantial number of non-English-speaking people, is required to employ a sufficient number of qualified bilingual persons in public contact positions to ensure provision of information and services to the public, in the language of the non-English-speaking person. The act provides that an employee of a state or local agency may not be dismissed to carry out the purposes of the act, and that an agency need only implement the act by filling employee public contact positions made vacant by retirement or normal attrition.
The act requires each agency to conduct a survey of its local offices every 2 years to determine prescribed matters, and requires the State Personnel Board to review the surveys and report any deficiencies to the Legislature.
This bill would require the survey and report to include additional information, and, if deficiencies in bilingual staffing are identified, would require state agencies to fill public contact jobs with qualified bilingual staff, unless exempted, as specified.
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