Language of the law
What changes would amendment bring?

 
By John Greiner, Susan Simpson and Wendy K. Kleinman
Published: April 24, 2008

Proposed English-only legislation would seriously affect public health and probably eliminate some other state documents translated into Spanish, state officials said Wednesday.

But in other instances, federal law probably will trump the English-only law's effect.

The legislation's most obvious effect would be the elimination of multilingual driver's license exams, multilingual state signs and government agency te...


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