Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Jan 30, 2018 | referred to codes delivered to senate passed assembly |
Jan 03, 2018 | ordered to third reading cal.119 returned to assembly died in senate |
Mar 01, 2017 | referred to codes delivered to senate passed assembly |
Feb 23, 2017 | advanced to third reading cal.68 |
Feb 14, 2017 | reported |
Jan 12, 2017 | referred to governmental operations |
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Richard Gottfried
William Colton
Matthew Titone
James Skoufis
Multi-Sponsors
Anthony Brindisi
Robert J. Rodriguez
Frank Skartados
A1547 (ACTIVE) - Details
A1547 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1547 2017-2018 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 12, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, GOTTFRIED, COLTON, TITONE, SKOUFIS, ROSENTHAL, WEPRIN, McDONOUGH, BLAKE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRINDISI, KEARNS, RODRIGUEZ, SKARTADOS -- 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: Section 1. The civil rights law is amended by adding a new section 79-o to read as follows: § 79-O. CLOSED CAPTIONING IN PLACES OF PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION, RESORT OR AMUSEMENT. 1. A PLACE OF PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION, RESORT OR AMUSEMENT, AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION NINE OF SECTION TWO HUNDRED NINETY-TWO OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW, SHALL UPON REQUEST BE REQUIRED TO HAVE CLOSED CAPTIONING ENABLED ON ALL TELEVISIONS THAT ARE LOCATED IN THE PUBLIC AREA OF SUCH ESTABLISHMENT DURING REGULAR HOURS OF BUSINESS. THE REGULAR HOURS OF BUSINESS OF THE PLACE OF PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION, RESORT OR AMUSEMENT SHALL BE THE HOURS OF OPERATION AS POSTED IN SUCH ESTABLISHMENT. 2. THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY IF: (A) NO TELEVISIONS IN THE PUBLIC AREA OF THE PLACE OF PUBLIC ACCOMMO- DATION, RESORT OR AMUSEMENT ARE CAPABLE OF PROVIDING CLOSED CAPTIONING; OR (B) IN THE EVENT THAT TWO TELEVISIONS IN THE PUBLIC AREA OF THE PLACE OF PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION, RESORT OR AMUSEMENT HAVE THE SAME CHANNEL BEING BROADCAST, ONLY ONE OF THE TELEVISIONS SHALL BE SUBJECT TO THIS SECTION. 3. AS USED IN THIS SECTION: EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04004-01-7