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For Virginians advocating open captioning in theaters, please consider contacting your representatives to support this bill currently in the Virginia General Assembly Virginia, HB 407 (see https://legiscan.com/VA/bill/HB407/2022).

A summary of the bill is as follows:

Open captioning at movie theaters. Requires all movie theaters, including outdoor theaters such as drive-in theaters, that have four or more screens and are open to the general public to provide open captioning at least twice per week on any film that is regularly shown, provided that open captioning is available for such film. The bill requires such movie theaters to provide notice to the general public regarding the availability of open captioning and schedule at least one viewing during peak viewing time.