All Roll Calls
Yes: 248 • No: 8
ConnecticutHB 069322025 Regular SessionHouse
AN ACT CONCERNING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A STATE INTERPRETING STANDARDS BOARD.
Sponsored By: Human Services Committee
Signed by Governor
Summary
To establish a state board to set standards for interpreting services for persons who are deaf, deafblind or hard of hearing.
human services
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Interpreter users get directory and complaint referrals
Beginning October 1, 2025, the bureau must publish a public online directory of registered interpreters. It lists qualified work settings and special skills, including protactile, tactile, and non-English interpreting. Beginning July 1, 2025, the advisory board must refer complaints about interpreter qualifications or registration to two bodies. These are the state's designated protection and advocacy organization and the Interpreting Standards Board. These tools serve people who are deaf, deafblind, or hard of hearing.
New board sets interpreter service standards
Effective July 1, 2025, Connecticut creates a nine-member Interpreting Standards Board for services used by deaf, deafblind, and hard-of-hearing people. At least six appointments must reflect the state's geographic and racial diversity. The board sets interpreter education, training, certification, and service standards, promotes training opportunities, and reviews and reports substantiated complaints. Appointments are due October 1, 2025, and the first meeting is due November 1, 2025. The board must recommend standards, regulations, and legislation by January 1, 2027. Under requirements effective October 1, 2025, the commissioner must put interim rules based on board recommendations in place by March 1, 2027. Notice of planned regulations must follow within 20 days, with proposed regulations submitted to the legislative review committee within 12 months after notice. Interim rules remain valid until final regulations are adopted.
Interpreters face registration rules with exemptions
Beginning October 1, 2025, paid interpreters and people who interpret as part of their jobs must register each year. The bureau may require proof of training hours. The law covers protactile and tactile interpreting for deafblind people, plus non-English-based interpreting. Family and friends who interpret voluntarily at the person's request are exempt. A deafblind-interpreting exemption continues until new standards are adopted or a state or national protactile or tactile interpreting standard is established. Beginning July 1, 2025, interpreters and registration applicants with recognized national or state credentials can request board review. The board can recommend equivalent credentials or waivers lasting up to three years and identify qualified work settings. The commissioner decides whether to approve them; approved interpreters receive the registration exemption specified by law.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Human Services Committee
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 5/5/2025
APP Vote Tally Sheet (Joint Favorable Substitute)
Yes: 42 • No: 8
Senate vote • 3/19/2025
Senate Roll Call Vote 427
Yes: 36 • No: 0
House vote • 3/19/2025
House Roll Call Vote 238 AS AMENDED
Yes: 148 • No: 0
House vote • 3/19/2025
HS Vote Tally Sheet (Joint Favorable Substitute)
Yes: 22 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Signed by the Governor
7/1/2025legislatureTransmitted by Secretary of the State to Governor
6/25/2025legislatureTransmitted to the Secretary of State
6/25/2025legislaturePublic Act 25-144
6/17/2025legislatureOn Consent Calendar / In Concurrence
6/4/2025legislatureSenate Passed as Amended by House Amendment Schedule A
6/4/2025SenateSenate Adopted House Amendment Schedule A
6/4/2025SenateSenate Calendar Number 568
5/31/2025SenateFavorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
5/31/2025SenateImmediate Transmittal to the Senate
5/30/2025SenateHouse Passed as Amended by House Amendment Schedule A
5/30/2025HouseHouse Adopted House Amendment Schedule A 9565
5/30/2025HouseFile Number 912
5/14/2025legislatureTabled for the Calendar, House
5/14/2025HouseNew File by Committee on Appropriations
5/14/2025legislatureReported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
5/14/2025legislatureReferred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 05/13/25 5:00 PM
5/8/2025legislatureFiled with Legislative Commissioners' Office
5/6/2025legislatureJoint Favorable Substitute
5/5/2025legislatureReferred by House to Committee on Appropriations
4/29/2025HouseFile Number 460
4/2/2025legislatureHouse Calendar Number 290
4/2/2025HouseFavorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, House
4/2/2025HouseReported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
4/2/2025legislatureReferred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/01/25 5:00 PM
3/27/2025legislature
Bill Text
Public Act No. 25-144
6/17/2025
File No. 912
5/14/2025
File No. 460
4/2/2025
APP Joint Favorable Substitute
3/19/2025
HS Joint Favorable Substitute
3/19/2025
Raised Bill
2/13/2025
APP Joint Fav. Rpt
APP Vote Tally Sheet (Joint Favorable Substitute)
Bill Analysis For File Copy 460
Bill Analysis For File Copy 912
Bill Analysis for HB-6932, as amended by House "A"
Fiscal Note For File Copy 460
Fiscal Note For File Copy 912
Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 9200 (Cost)
Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 9565 (No Fiscal Impact)
Fiscal Note for HB-6932, As Amended by House "A" (LCO 9565)
HS Joint Fav. Rpt
HS Vote Tally Sheet (Joint Favorable Substitute)
House LCO Amendment #9200 (D)
House Roll Call Vote 238 AS AMENDED
House Schedule A LCO# 9565 (D)
Senate Roll Call Vote 427
Summary for Public Act No. 25-144
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