Allows educational interpreters who have not successfully achieved the applicable performance standard required by the Professional Educator Standards Board to provide or continue providing interpreter services to students for delineated periods of time if certain requirements are met.
Modifies provisions governing the inapplicability of the educational interpreter performance standards to other sign systems or languages.
Establishes definitions for "interpretation" and "transliteration" in provisions governing educational interpreters.
Requires the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, by December 1, 2017, to submit a report to the education committees of the Legislature regarding costs, associated timelines, and the feasibility of conducting or contracting for a peer review of the Educational Signed Skills Evaluation.
Includes an emergency clause making all provisions effective immediately.
From the Substitute House Bill Report (SSB 5142), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗