Requiring and providing for certification and registration of persons providing American sign language (ASL) English interpreting or cured speech or oral transliterator services for remuneration; specifying certain national certification standards and education requirements for eligibility, requiring annual registration of evidence of national certification with the department of health and requiring first time registrants to register evidence of graduation with certain degrees or accredited training programs, providing for certain exceptions; providing for provisional certification and renewal; clarifying the relationship of the certification provisions with existing laws; imposing civil and criminal penalties for violation of the requirements; requiring the deaf and hard of hearing services division of the department of human services to establish nonbinding competency guidelines for interpreters and transliterators for consumer protection purposes and to operate a mediation process to resolve complaints and authorizing the division to establish qualifications for areas of specialization; encouraging the board of trustees on the Minnesota state colleges and universities system (MnSCU) to establish entrance competencies in American sign language and English for persons seeking admission to sign language interpreters services training programs; requiring the Minnesota commission serving deaf and hard of hearing people in consultation with certain concerned agencies to study ways to improve the quality of sign language interpreting and transliterating services and to report and make recommendations to the legislature by certain dates; appropriating money to the commissioner of human services to establish mentorship programs to assist new graduates of interpreter training programs in obtaining certification(mk)