S 555 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

CINEMA Act

Introduced Mar 13, 2013 Originated Senate Sponsor Tom Harkin D-IA

Fact sheet

Latest action · May 14, 2013 Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held.

Progress

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  1. IntroducedMar 13, 2013
  2. Passed SenateNot reached
  3. Passed HouseNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Captioning and Image Narration to Enhance Movie Accessibility Act or the CINEMA Act - Amends the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 to declare it a discriminatory practice for any person who owns, leases (or leases to), or operates certain movie complexes to fail to ensure that the motion pictures are accessible to individuals with disabilities, including by making open captioning (openly displaying text on the movie screen), closed captioning (displaying text through an individual device), and video description (narrated descriptions) available for individuals who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, or have other disabilities.

Applies this Act to entities operating a complex of at least two movie theaters, screening rooms, or similar venues, at a single location, that are used for the exhibition of copyrighted motion pictures, if such exhibition is open to the public.

Cosponsors

Members who signed on, in the order they did.

No cosponsors are on file for this measure.

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. May 14, 2013Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held.
  2. Mar 13, 2013Introduced in Senate
  3. Mar 13, 2013Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1792)
  4. Mar 13, 2013Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1791-1792)

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Mar 13, 2013Introduced in Senate

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