HB 3151
The Closed Captioning Act
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Bill overview
This bill, the Closed Captioning Act, aims to improve access to television programming for people with hearing impairments in West Virginia. It requires public places like restaurants, bars, and government offices that have televisions available for public use to activate closed captioning on at least half of those televisions. The bill includes an exception for places without televisions or with only non-captioning televisions, and defines key terms related to closed captioning.
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