HB 2023 — Improving meaningful access to elections by increasing language assistance.
Did not pass — the 2023–24 session has ended
- Sponsor
- Shavers
- Introduced
- January 8, 2024
- Status
- H Rules 3C
- Last action
- By resolution, returned to House Rules Committee for third reading. (March 7, 2024)
What this bill does
Requires counties to provide language assistance during elections when more than 2.5 percent of voting-age citizens in certain language minority groups in the county do not speak or understand English adequately enough to participate in the electoral process and have not completed the fifth grade at a rate higher than the national average. Requires the Secretary of State to determine which counties are subject to these language assistance provisions.
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Floor votes
- House — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 13, 202484 yea · 13 nay · 1 not voting
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