LRB-1778/P2
MIM:skw
2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Sherwin, BB0565 - Written Foreign Language Translation
For 2021-2023 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
State government
State finance
Contracts for written foreign language translation
This bill requires the Bureau of Procurement in DOA to enter into contracts or amend existing contracts with vendors to provide written foreign language translation services to executive branch agencies by September 1, 2022.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 9101.
Nonstatutory provisions; Administration.
(1) Contracts for written foreign language translation.
(a) Definitions. In this subsection:
1. “Contractual services” has the meaning given in s. 16.70 (3).
2. “Executive branch agency” has the meaning given in s. 16.70 (4).
(b) Contractual services contracts. By no later than September 1, 2022, the bureau of procurement in the department of administration shall amend existing contracts or enter into at least one contract for contractual services to provide written foreign language translation for executive branch agencies. Any such contract shall require a 24-hour maximum period for completion of a requested translation from the foreign language to English.
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