H.R. 4652 · 117th Congress
Training for Realtime Writers Act of 2021
- Stage
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Ron Kind
- Introduced
- 2021-07-22
- Latest action
- 2021-07-22 · Introduced in House
Summary
Training for Realtime Writers Act of 2021
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.