3.0.0 1911 2025-01-14T18:51:33Z 2025-01-14T18:51:33Z Senate S S 2023-06-08 118 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2023-06-08T19:05:21Z 2023-06-08 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. IntroReferral 2023-06-08 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001070 Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] Bob Casey D PA N D000622 Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL] Tammy Duckworth D IL 2023-06-08 True B001277 Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] Richard Blumenthal D CT 2023-06-08 True M000133 Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] Edward Markey D MA J. 2023-06-08 True B000944 Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] Sherrod Brown D OH 2023-06-08 True B001230 Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI] Tammy Baldwin D WI 2023-06-08 True S000033 Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] Bernard Sanders I VT 2023-06-13 False Transportation and Public Works Transportation and Public Works 2023-07-07T18:45:18Z

00 2023-06-08 Introduced in Senate 2024-02-16T15:20:44Z <p><b>Airline Safety Information and Entertainment Access Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires air carriers (including foreign carriers) to ensure equal access to airline information and entertainment programming for all airline passengers regardless of their disabilities.</p> <p>Specifically, the bill requires an air carrier to provide or make available for persons with disabilities</p> <ul> <li>open captioning and an American Sign Language (ASL) option when the information and programming are available to passengers through shared video displays, </li> <li>closed captioning and an ASL option when the information and programming are available to passengers through individual video displays, and</li> <li>audio descriptions when the information and programming are available to passengers through individual or shared video displays.</li> </ul> <p>An air carrier must also provide any aural public address announcement in textual format through individual or shared video displays. </p> <p>Further, an air carrier must ensure all control systems for video displays, applications (apps) for personal devices, web portals, and websites for passengers have the option to allow a person with a disability to operate the item nonvisually. </p> <p>The Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (the Access Board) must set forth the minimum technical criteria for individual video displays, apps for personal devices, web portals, and websites for airline passengers to ensure that they include a mechanism that allows persons with disabilities to operate them nonvisually. The Department of Transportation must issue any necessary regulations. </p> <p>A civil action may be brought by an aggrieved person or the Department of Justice in a U.S. District Court against an air carrier for violations of these requirements.</p>

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