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PAG LIN
1 1 Amend the House amendment, S-3450, to Senate File
1 2 449, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the Senate,
1 3 as follows:
1 4 #1. Page 1, by inserting after line 4 the
1 5 following:
1 6 "Sec. . NEW SECTION. 1.18 OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
1 7 OF STATE.
1 8 The official language of the state shall be the
1 9 English language and all official proceedings,
1 10 records, and publications shall be in the English
1 11 language. This English language requirement shall not
1 12 apply to communications intended for persons who are
1 13 deaf or blind. The requirements of this section
1 14 establishing English as the official language of the
1 15 state shall not apply to any of the following:
1 16 1. To public employees in the oral or verbal, as
1 17 opposed to written, performance of government business
1 18 if necessary for effective communications.
1 19 2. To instruction in foreign language classes.
1 20 3. To instruction designed to aid students with
1 21 limited English proficiency.
1 22 4. When deemed to interfere with the needs of the
1 23 judicial system.
1 24 5. When public health, safety, and emergency
1 25 services require the use of other languages.
1 26 6. To the promotion of international commerce and
1 27 tourism.
1 28 7. To any oral or written communications,
1 29 examinations, or publications produced or utilized by
1 30 a driver's license station, provided public safety is
1 31 not jeopardized.
1 32 8. To personal communications relating to a
1 33 particular student and sent home from a school with
1 34 that student. Such communications may be in a
1 35 language other than English if a non-English language
1 36 is necessary for effective communications.
1 37 9. To any publication of any division of the
1 38 department of human rights. Written material produced
1 39 by the divisions of the department of human rights
1 40 relating to any matter within the scope of their
1 41 authority may be published in any language necessary
1 42 to effectively communicate with the intended
1 43 recipients of the material."
1 44 #2. Page 3, by striking lines 3 through 5.
1 45 #3. By renumbering as necessary.
1 46
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1 48
1 49 STEVE KING
1 50 SF 449.716 78
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