Texas HB4444 allows public libraries to use available funds to provide multilingual resources for three fastest-growing emerging communities.

Texas HB4444 amends the Local Government Code to authorize public libraries to use their funds, including state money, to offer multilingual library services and resources. These resources target the three fastest-growing, non-English- or Spanish-speaking emerging communities in the county. An emerging community is defined as a group sharing a common ethnicity and having a positive population growth rate. Libraries may offer these resources online or digitally and must communicate their availability to the relevant communities.

Texas HB4444 allows public libraries to use available funds to provide multilingual resources for three fastest-growing emerging communities.

Texas HB4444 amends the Local Government Code to authorize public libraries to use their funds, including state money, to offer multilingual library services and resources. These resources target the three fastest-growing, non-English- or Spanish-speaking emerging communities in the county. An emerging community is defined as a group sharing a common ethnicity and having a positive population growth rate. Libraries may offer these resources online or digitally and must communicate their availability to the relevant communities.