Summary of the Introduced Bill

HB 343 -- Closed Captioning of Local Television News Programming

Sponsor:  Graham

This bill requires that, beginning January 1, 2002, all
television stations provide real-time captioning of all local
news, weather, and sports programming.  The use of electronic
newsroom technology will not satisfy the requirements of the
bill.


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