S. 555: CINEMA Act
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S. 555: CINEMA Act
113th Congress · introduced 2013-03-13 · Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues · Latest: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2013-03-13 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
CINEMA Act
Plain 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.
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Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA] · 0 cosponsors
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-113s555.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/113/s>
Record fed-us-cong113-s555 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113