Bill Text: NY A08268 | 2013-2014 | 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.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A08268 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A08268-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         8268
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   November 20, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, GOTTFRIED, COLTON, TITONE, McDONOUGH
         -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. WEISENBERG -- 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
         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    S 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 BE REQUIRED TO HAVE CLOSED  CAPTIONING  ENABLED  ON
    7  ALL  TELEVISIONS  THAT ARE LOCATED IN THE PUBLIC AREA OF SUCH ESTABLISH-
    8  MENT DURING REGULAR HOURS OF BUSINESS. THE REGULAR HOURS OF BUSINESS  OF
    9  THE  PLACE  OF  PUBLIC  ACCOMMODATION,  RESORT OR AMUSEMENT SHALL BE THE
   10  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. DEFINITIONS. 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    S 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2014.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11828-01-3