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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5348--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 13, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. LARKIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to
the Committee on Codes in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
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:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (a) "closed captioning" shall mean a feature on a television that when
2 activated will visually display a transcription of the audio portion of
3 video programming; and
4 (b) "public area" shall mean the section of a place of public accommo-
5 dation, resort or amusement that is open to the general public.
6 § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2017.
