Maryland House Bill 1523 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 7 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-02-11 - Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m.
Pending: House Economic Matters Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requiring a certain place of public accommodation that owns, leases, operates, or controls a movie theater to provide access to certain closed-captioning technology for the general public for certain motion pictures under certain circumstances; requiring a certain place of public accommodation that owns, leases, operates, or controls a movie theater in two or more locations in the State to provide open captioning during at least two showings per week of certain motion pictures under certain circumstances; and defining certain terms.

Human Relations - Public Accommodations - Captioning in Movie Theaters (Open Captioning Equality Act of 2020)

Del. Dan Cox [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-11	House	Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m.
2020-02-07	House	First Reading Economic Matters

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
State Government	20	301	(n/a)	See Bill Text
State Government	20	305	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/HB1523?ys=2020RS
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb1523f.pdf