Bill Text: HI HB1009 | 2019 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Relating To Movie Theaters.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-07-01 - Act 154, 06/26/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1256). [HB1009 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2019-HB1009-Amended.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1009
THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019		H.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII		S.D. 1

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO MOVIE THEATERS.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

     SECTION 1.  Section 489-9, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

     "(a)  A public accommodation that owns, leases, leases to, or operates a motion picture theater in more than two locations in the State shall provide[:

     (1)  Open] open movie captioning during at least [one showing] two showings per week of each motion picture that is produced and offered with open movie captioning[; or

     (2)  A personal closed captioning system by means of lightweight eyewear for a motion picture that is produced and offered with closed captioning content]."

     SECTION 2.  Act 39, Session Laws of Hawaii 2015, as amended by section 2 of Act 211, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017, is amended by amending section 3 to read as follows:

     "SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2016 [, and shall be repealed on January 1, 2020]."

     SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2019.

 

Report Title:

Motion Picture Theaters; Accommodations; Open Captioning

 

Description:

Requires a movie theater to provide at least two showings per week per movie offered with open movie captioning.  Removes the option for a movie theater to provide eyewear to fulfill the open movie captioning requirement.  Makes the open captioning requirement permanent by repealing the sunset date of Act 39, Session Laws of Hawaii 2015.  (SD1)

 

 

 

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