Bill Text: NY A02076 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires places of public accommodation, resort or amusement that operate televisions during regular hours of operation to provide closed captioning on certain televisions upon request.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-09-13 - SIGNED CHAP.295 [A02076 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02076-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2076
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 22, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZEBROWSKI,  GOTTFRIED, COLTON, L. ROSENTHAL,
          WEPRIN, BLAKE, McDONOUGH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of  A.  RODRIGUEZ
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to requiring places of
          public  accommodation,  resort  or  amusement that operate televisions
          during regular hours of operation  to  provide  closed  captioning  on
          certain televisions upon request
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The civil rights law is amended by  adding  a  new  section
     2  79-o to read as follows:
     3    § 79-o. Closed captioning in places of public accommodation, resort or
     4  amusement.  1.  A place of public accommodation, resort or amusement, as
     5  defined in subdivision nine of section two  hundred  ninety-two  of  the
     6  executive  law, shall upon request be required to have closed captioning
     7  enabled on all televisions that are located in the public area  of  such
     8  establishment  during  regular  hours  of business. The regular hours of
     9  business of the place of public accommodation, resort or amusement shall
    10  be the hours of operation as posted in such establishment.
    11    2. The provisions of this section shall not apply if:
    12    (a) no televisions in the public area of the place of public  accommo-
    13  dation,  resort or amusement are capable of providing closed captioning;
    14  or
    15    (b) in the event that two televisions in the public area of the  place
    16  of  public  accommodation,  resort  or amusement   have the same channel
    17  being broadcast, only one of the televisions shall be  subject  to  this
    18  section.
    19    3. As used in this section:
    20    (a) "closed captioning" shall mean a feature on a television that when
    21  activated  will visually display a transcription of the audio portion of
    22  video programming; and
    23    (b) "public area" shall mean the section of a place of public accommo-
    24  dation, resort or amusement that is open to the general public.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01560-01-9