Senate Bill S8961

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires certain motion picture theaters to provide scheduled showings of motion pictures with open motion picture captioning

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Consumer Protection Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S8961 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9947
Current Committee:
Senate Consumer Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 45 §§1450 - 1454, Gen Bus L

2023-S8961 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a motion picture theater that offers more than ten motion picture showings per week to provide scheduled showings of motion pictures with open motion picture captioning such that at least one quarter of all showings of a motion picture with four or more showings during a one-week time period shall have open motion picture captioning; provides exceptions and penalties for violations.

2023-S8961 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S8961 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8961
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               April 3, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered printed, and
   when printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
 
 AN ACT to amend the general  business  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
   certain  motion  picture  theaters  to  provide  scheduled showings of
   motion pictures with open motion picture captioning

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new article
 45 to read as follows:
 
                                ARTICLE 45
                              OPEN CAPTIONING
 SECTION 1450. DEFINITIONS.
         1451. OPEN MOTION PICTURE CAPTIONING REQUIRED.
         1452. VIOLATIONS.
         1453. PREEMPTION.
         1454. ENFORCEMENT OF THIS ARTICLE.
   § 1450. DEFINITIONS.  FOR  THE PURPOSES OF THIS ARTICLE, THE FOLLOWING
 TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   1. "MOTION PICTURE" MEANS A STORY OR EVENT RECORDED BY A CAMERA  AS  A
 SET OF MOVING IMAGES.
   2. "MOTION PICTURE THEATER" MEANS AN ENTITY IN THE BUSINESS OF PROVID-
 ING SHOWINGS OF MOTION PICTURES TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
   3.  "OPEN  MOTION  PICTURE  CAPTIONING"  MEANS  THE WRITTEN, ON-SCREEN
 DISPLAY OF A  MOTION  PICTURE'S  DIALOGUE  AND  NON-SPEECH  INFORMATION,
 INCLUDING  MUSIC,  THE  IDENTITY  OF  THE CHARACTER WHO IS SPEAKING, AND
 OTHER SOUNDS AND SOUND EFFECTS.
   4. "PEAK MOTION PICTURE ATTENDANCE HOURS" MEANS THE HOURS BETWEEN FIVE
 FIFTY-NINE IN THE EVENING AND ONE MINUTE  PAST  ELEVEN  O'CLOCK  IN  THE
 EVENING  ON FRIDAY AND THE HOURS BETWEEN ELEVEN TWENTY-NINE IN THE MORN-
 ING AND ONE MINUTE PAST ELEVEN O'CLOCK IN THE  EVENING  ON  SATURDAY  OR
 SUNDAY.
   § 1451. OPEN  MOTION  PICTURE CAPTIONING REQUIRED. 1. A MOTION PICTURE
 THEATER THAT OFFERS MORE THAN TEN MOTION PICTURE SHOWINGS PER WEEK SHALL
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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