Title
Title
Rules and Forms | Language Access Plan: Language Services in Noncourtroom Settings (Action Required)
body
Summary
Summary
The Advisory Committee on Providing Access and Fairness recommends the adoption of a new rule of court and the approval of three optional forms to satisfy a series of recommendations from the Strategic Plan for Language Access in the California Courts (LAP) focusing on the provision of language services outside the courtroom.
body
Recommendation
Recommendation
The Advisory Committee on Providing Access and Fairness recommends that the Judicial Council, effective September 1, 2019:
1. Adopt California Rules of Court, rule 1.300, titled “Access to programs, services, and professionals,” to be located within a new chapter of title 1, “Language Access Services”; and
2. Approve Notice of Available Language Assistance-Service Provider (form LA-350); Service Not Available in My Language: Request to Change Court Order (form LA-400); and Service Not Available in My Language: Order (form LA-450), to be identified by a new forms category titled “Language Access,” having the prefix LA.
body