A bill to authorize the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped to provide playback equipment in all formats.

Bill: 114-s-3207
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2016-07-13
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Books and print media

Congressional agencies

Disability and paralysis

Libraries and archives

Library of Congress
Latest action: action_date: 2016-07-29
text: Became Public Law No: 114-219.

Summaries:
action_date: 2016-07-13
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill authorizes the Library of Congress to purchase, maintain, or replace reproducers for books published either in raised characters, on sound-reproduction recordings, or in any other form (currently limited to reproducers of sound-reproduction recordings) for the use of the blind and for other physically disabled U.S. residents. </p>

action_date: 2016-07-13
action_desc: Passed Senate without amendment
text: <p>(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)</p> <p>(Sec. 1) This bill authorizes the Library of Congress to purchase, maintain, or replace reproducers for books published either in raised characters, on sound-reproduction recordings, or in any other form (currently limited to reproducers of sound-reproduction recordings) for the use of the blind and for other physically disabled U.S. residents. </p>

action_date: 2016-07-14
action_desc: Passed House without amendment
text: <p>(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the Senate passed version is repeated here.)</p> <p>(Sec. 1) This bill authorizes the Library of Congress to purchase, maintain, or replace reproducers for books published either in raised characters, on sound-reproduction recordings, or in any other form (currently limited to reproducers of sound-reproduction recordings) for the use of the blind and for other physically disabled U.S. residents. </p>

action_date: 2016-07-29
action_desc: Public Law
text: <p>(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the Senate passed version is repeated here.)</p> <p>(Sec. 1) This bill authorizes the Library of Congress to purchase, maintain, or replace reproducers for books published either in raised characters, on sound-reproduction recordings, or in any other form (currently limited to reproducers of sound-reproduction recordings) for the use of the blind and for other physically disabled U.S. residents. </p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3207 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES July 13, 2016 Mr. Schumer (for himself and Mr. Blunt ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed A BILL To authorize the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped to provide playback equipment in all formats.

1. Authorizing the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped to provide playback equipment in all formats The first sentence of the Act entitled An Act to provide books for the adult blind , approved March 3, 1931 ( 2 U.S.C. 135a ), is amended by striking and for purchase, maintenance, and replacement of reproducers for such sound-reproduction recordings and inserting and for purchase, maintenance, and replacement of reproducers for any such forms .

tv_txt: One Hundred Fourteenth Congress of the United States of America 2d Session Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, the fourth day of January, two thousand and sixteen S. 3207 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES AN ACT To authorize the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped to provide playback equipment in all formats.

1. Authorizing the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped to provide playback equipment in all formats The first sentence of the Act entitled An Act to provide books for the adult blind , approved March 3, 1931 ( 2 U.S.C. 135a ), is amended by striking and for purchase, maintenance, and replacement of reproducers for such sound-reproduction recordings and inserting and for purchase, maintenance, and replacement of reproducers for any such forms .

Speaker of the House of Representatives Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate

tv_txt: 114th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3207 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES AN ACT To authorize the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped to provide playback equipment in all formats.

1. Authorizing the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped to provide playback equipment in all formats The first sentence of the Act entitled An Act to provide books for the adult blind , approved March 3, 1931 ( 2 U.S.C. 135a ), is amended by striking and for purchase, maintenance, and replacement of reproducers for such sound-reproduction recordings and inserting and for purchase, maintenance, and replacement of reproducers for any such forms .

Passed the Senate July 13, 2016. Secretary