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Posted
February 11, 2005
HB 530 (ASL for Foreign Language Credit) Filed |
At the request of the Missouri Commission for the
Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Representative Danie Moore of Fulton filed
HB 530 yesterday. HB 530 would give students in all public
educational institutions in Missouri credit for taking American Sign
Language (ASL) classes if those classes are offered in the regular
curriculum of the institutions. It would allow students to earn ASL
credit by proficiency if an educational institution offers courses
in ASL. And it would allow students to use ASL to satisfy “foreign
language” or “language arts” admission and graduation requirements
at any public institution of higher education in Missouri. This bill
has not yet been assigned to a committee.
MCDHH wants to do everything possible to get an ASL bill passed this
year. Therefore I am asking everyone who supports this bill to send
an e-mail, fax, or regular letter to me indicating their support for
the bill (see contact info below). Please do that as soon as
possible as I want to be prepared to show those letters to various
legislators and members of the committee to which the bill is
assigned. It would also be "good politics" if people sent an e-mail
to Representative Moore (danielle.moore@house.mo.gov) thanking her
for introducing this bill.
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For more information about legislation/issues,
contact
MCDHH@mcdhh.mo.gov
This report is being posted by the Missouri Commission for the
Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
02-11-05 |
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