Virginia HB 740: Movie theaters; closed captioning.

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HOUSE BILL NO. 740 

Offered January 8, 2020 

Prefiled January 6, 2020 

A BILL to amend and reenact � 51.5-44 of the Code of Virginia, 
 relating to closed captioning at movie theaters. 
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Patron-- Watts 

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Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions 

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That � 51.5-44 of the Code of Virginia is amended and 
 reenacted as follows:

� 51.5-44. Rights of persons with disabilities in public 
 places and places of public accommodation.

A. A person with a disability has the same rights as other 
 persons to the full and free use of the streets, highways, sidewalks, walkways, 
 public buildings, public facilities, and other public places. For purposes of 
 this section, a "person with a disability" means a person whose 
 disability is unrelated to his ability to utilize and benefit from a place of 
 public accommodation or public service.

B. A person with a disability is entitled to full and equal 
 accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of all common carriers, 
 airplanes, motor vehicles, railroad trains, motor buses, streetcars, subways, 
 boats or any other public conveyances or modes of transportation, restaurants, 
 hotels, lodging places, places of public accommodation, amusement or resort, 
 public entities including schools, and other places to which the general public 
 is invited subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law 
 and applicable alike to all persons.

C. Each town, city, or county, individually or through 
 transportation district commissions, shall ensure that persons with 
 disabilities have access to the public transportation within its jurisdiction 
 by either (i) use of the same transportation facilities or carriers available 
 to the general public, (ii) provision of paratransit or special transportation 
 services for persons with disabilities, or (iii) both. All persons with 
 disabilities in the jurisdiction's service area who, by reason of their 
 disabilities, are unable to use the service for the general public shall be 
 eligible to use such paratransit or special transportation service. No fee that 
 exceeds the fee charged to the general public shall be charged a person with a 
 disability for the use of the same transportation facilities or carriers 
 available to the general public. Paratransit or special transportation service 
 for persons with disabilities may charge fees to such persons comparable to the 
 fees charged to the general public for similar service in the jurisdiction 
 service area, taking into account especially the type, length, and time of 
 trip. Any variance between special servi