3.0.0 556 2022-03-03T21:28:44Z 2022-03-03T21:28:44Z Senate S S 2013-03-13 113 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Hearings by 2013-05-14T21:12:58Z sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2013-03-13T22:55:07Z 2013-05-14 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held. Committee 2013-03-13 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1792-1793) IntroReferral 2013-03-13 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H000206 Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA] THOMAS HARKIN D IA RICHARD N Transportation and Public Works Access Board Administrative law and regulatory procedures Aviation and airports Disability and health-based discrimination Hearing, speech, and vision care Television and film Transportation and Public Works 00 2013-03-13 Introduced in Senate 2014-03-11T18:14:31Z Air Carrier Access Amendments Act - Requires domestic and foreign air carriers to ensure that all visually displayed entertainment programming available to flight passengers is accessible to individuals with disabilities, including by making available open captioning (openly displaying text on a shared video monitor), closed captioning (displaying text through an individual video monitor), and video description (audio-narrated descriptions through individual or shared monitors) for individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, or visually impaired, as the case may be.

Requires in addition that all individual video displays to flight passengers of entertainment programming or information that are operated primarily by use of touchscreens or other contact-sensitive controls include a mechanism allowing individuals with disabilities to operate such displays independently in accordance with standards the Access Board shall establish.

Makes certain penalties under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 available to persons aggrieved by an air carrier's failure to comply with this Act.

]]> Air Carrier Access Amendments Act Short Titles as Introduced Air Carrier Access Amendments Act Display Title Air Carrier Access Amendments Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to improve the accessibility of entertainment programming provided by air carriers on passenger flights, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2013-03-13T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-113s556is/xml/BILLS-113s556is.xml 2013-05-14 Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.