A bill to expand and improve the quality and scope of reading services available to blind persons, and for other purposes.
Reading Services Expansion and Improvement Act - Authorizes appropriations to States for: (1) employment of persons who through reading aloud can afford blind persons ready access to printed information; (2) transcription of printed information into braille or sound recording, if such transcription is performed pursuant to individual requests from blind persons for such service; (3) the purchase, storage, and distribution of equipment and materials necessary for the production, duplication, and reproduction of braille materials and sound recordings; and (4) the purchase, storage, and distribution of equipment provided to blind persons that affords such persons private individual access to printed materials.
Introduced in Senate
Referred to Senate Committee on Human Resources.
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