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Minnesota Statutes Public Welfare and Related Activities (Ch. 245-267) § 256C.30. Duties of human services commissioner

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) As described in this section, the commissioner of human services must enter into grant agreements with television stations to make live local news programming accessible to persons who are deaf, persons who are hard-of-hearing, and persons who are deafblind as defined insection 256C.23.

(b) The grant agreements must provide for:

(1) real-time captioning services for broadcasting that is not emergency broadcasting subject toCode of Federal Regulations, title 47, section 79.2;

(2) real-time captioning services for commercial broadcasters in areas of Minnesota where commercial broadcasters are not subject to the live programming closed-captioning requirements ofCode of Federal Regulations, title 47, section 79.1(d); and

(3) real-time captioning for large-market noncommercial broadcasters who produce live news programming.

(c) For the purposes of this section, “real-time captioning” means a method of captioning in which captions are simultaneously prepared and transmitted at the time of origination by specially trained real-time captioners.

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