Tex. Gov't Code § 558.002 · Chapter 558. INTERPRETERS FOR DEAF OR HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS
STATE EXAMINATIONS.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A deaf or hearing impaired person taking a state examination required for state employment or issuance of a state license is entitled, on request, to an interpreter.
(b) The interpreter may be paid for not more than eight hours for interpreting in a calendar day and is entitled to $5 for each hour of interpreting in a calendar day, except that the interpreter is entitled to $15 for the first hour.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.558.htm
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- sha256 5a791f361ed470230915a820d8069860f990cb3a5c096364ebfb1b1f824a1d00
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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