To provide competitive grants for training court reporters and closed captioners to meet requirements for realtime writers under the Communications Act of 1934, and for other purposes.
Training for Realtime Writers Act of 2019
This bill establishes a grant program to recruit, train, and place real-time writers for closed captioning of television programming.
Specifically, the bill requires the Department of Education to award grants to court reporting programs that possess the most substantial capacity to train real-time writers for closed captioning English and Spanish video programming. Grant recipients shall use the funds to recruit, train and assist, and place real-time writers.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
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