S9888 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Requires a motion picture theater that offers more than ten motion picture showings per week to provide scheduled showings of motion pictures with open motion picture captioning such that at least one quarter of all showings of a motion picture with four or more showings during a one-week time period shall have open motion picture captioning; provides exceptions and penalties for violations.
- Title
- Requires certain motion picture theaters to provide scheduled showings of motion pictures with open motion picture captioning
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Senate Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-05-13
- In committee
- Commerce, Economic Development And Small Business
- Introduced
- 2026-04-13
- Active version
- S9888A
- Same as
- A4628
- Law section
- General Business Law
Sponsors
- Nathalia Fernandez State Senator, District 34
Co-sponsors
- Erik Bottcher State Senator, District 47
Heard in committee
- Commerce, Economic Development And Small Business NY State Senate committee
- Consumer Protection NY State Senate committee
Same as
- A4628 (2025-26 session) NY State bill
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.
- Consumer Protection, 2026-05-12 Referred to committee; referred to Commerce, Economic Development And Small Business