Gov. Code, § 71803 · Chapter 7.5. Trial Court Interpreter Employment and Labor Relations Act
Gov. Code, § 71803
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) In each trial court, there shall be an employee classification entitled “intermittent, part-time interpreter” to perform simultaneous and consecutive interpretation and sight translation in spoken languages for the trial courts. Unless otherwise provided in a memorandum of understanding or agreement with a recognized employee organization, all of the following applies to employees in this classification:
(1) They shall be appointed by the trial court to perform work on an as needed basis.
(2) They shall be paid on a per diem basis for work performed.
(3) They are not required to receive health, pension, or paid leave benefits.
(b) Intermittent, part-time interpreters may accept appointments to provide services in other trial courts pursuant to Section 71810.
(c) A trial court may hire registered or nonregistered interpreters as employees to perform relay interpretation.
(d) Unless otherwise provided in a memorandum of understanding or agreement with a recognized employee organization, no rules and regulations or personnel rules shall limit the number of hours or days intermittent, part-time interpreters are permitted to work.
(e) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2025.
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History
Repealed (in Sec. 5) and added by Stats. 2023, Ch. 556, Sec. 6. (AB 1032) Effective January 1, 2024. Operative January 1, 2025, by its own provisions.
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