Bilingual-Oriented Social Equity Services Grant Program.

Existing law, the Dymally-Alatorre Bilingual Services Act, requires a state agency that serves a substantial number of non-English-speaking people, as defined, and that finds other specific factors to exist to distribute specified written materials in the appropriate non-English language through its statewide and local offices or facilities to those non-English-speaking persons. As an alternative, the act requires the state agency to furnish translation aids or guides or to provide assistance, through use of a qualified bilingual person, in completing English forms or questionnaires and in understanding English forms, letters, or notices.