HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2572

TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2014

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to movie theaters.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 347-13, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§347-13  Persons who are blind, visually handicapped, disabled; public places; public conveyances.  (a)  Persons who are blind, visually handicapped, or otherwise disabled are entitled to full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of all common carriers, airplanes, motor vehicles, railroad trains, motor buses, street cars, boats, or any other public conveyances or modes of transportation, hotels, lodging places, places of public accommodation, amusement, or resort, and other places to which the general public is invited, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable to all persons.

     (b)  Every person who is blind, deaf, visually handicapped, or otherwise disabled shall have the right to be accompanied by a service dog, especially trained for the purpose of assisting the person in any of the places listed in subsection (a) without being required to pay an extra charge for the service dog; provided that the person shall be liable for any damage done to the premises or facilities by the service dog.  No service dog shall be considered dangerous merely because it is unmuzzled.

     (c)  Every disabled person shall have the right to use a life jacket or other flotation device in a public swimming pool; provided that:

     (1)  The person suffers from a physical disability or condition that requires the use of a life jacket or other flotation device; and

     (2)  The person obtains a statement signed by a licensed physician or physician assistant attesting to the person's need to use a life jacket or other flotation device.

     (d)  Every motion picture theater to which the general public is invited shall provide closed captioning and descriptive narration of each motion picture being shown.

     [(d)] (e)  The director of human services shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91 necessary for the purposes of this section."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2015.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Motion Picture Theaters; Closed Captioning and Descriptive Narration

 

Description:

Requires motion picture theaters open to the general public to provide closed captioning and descriptive narration of each motion picture being shown.

 

 

 

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