Focus Report, Volume 75, Number 10, July 1997 Page: 18
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Pay for police off icers, firefighters serving as bilingual-interpreters
HB 2750 by Hinojosa (Lucio)' .
DIGEST: HB 2750 would have permitted municipal police and fire departments to
designate police or firefighters as official bilingual interpreters and required
them to pay these employees additional wages for using the second language
skills in the service of the department. Fire and police departments that failed
to pay additional wages to bilingual interpreters would have been liable for
damages amounting to lost wages plus five percent annual interest:GOVERNOR'S
REASON
FOR VETO:
RESPONSE:-
NOTES:-"House Bill 2750 imposes an unnecessary and unfunded mandate on
municipalities. Municipalities should determine the appropriate pay for their
employees."
Rep. JuanHinojosa, the author of HB/2750, said he was disappointed that the
governor vetoed a bill that would have set up'a'framework to address the
issues surrounding the designation of official interpreters in police and fire
departments, instead of the current confused situation that has led to an
interpreter free-for-all. -He said the governor was misadvised, that the
additional wages could have been in the form of compensatory time, rather
than increased-sala-y, and that he felt HB 2750 would have provided the
needed guidance to resolvethe issue.
HB 2750 passed the House on the Local and Consent Calendar and was not
analyzed in a Daily Floor Report.House Research Organization
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