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Kentucky Official English legislation
Text (H.B. 12)
AN ACT relating to the official language of the Commonwealth.
Amend KRS 2.013 to provide that unless otherwise authorized or provided
by law, all documents produced or utilized by the Commonwealth or its
political subdivisions shall be in the English language only.
Status
On June 7, 2006, bill sponsors Stan Lee, Mike Harmon, and Russ Mobley
prefiled the bill with the Interim Joint Committee on State Government
for introduction in the 2007 legislative session.
It was introduced on January 2, 2007, and sent to the State Government
committee on January 5th.
*Languages spoken in Kentucky households (according to the 2000 US Cenus)
Speak only English 3,627,757
Speak a language other than English 148,473
Spanish or Spanish Creole 70,061
German 17,898 0.5
French (incl. Patois, Cajun) 12,499
Chinese 4,608
Japanese 3,777
Korean 3,730 0.1
Other West Germanic languages 3,616
Arabic 3,165
Serbo-Croatian 3,070
Vietnamese 3,018
Russian 2,162
Tagalog 2,070
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