124 STAT. 2770 PUBLIC LAW 111–260—OCT. 8, 2010 ‘‘(g) EMERGENCY INFORMATION.—Not later than 1 year after the Advisory Committee report under subsection (e)(2) is submitted to the Commission, the Commission shall complete a proceeding to— ‘‘(1) identify methods to convey emergency information (as that term is defined in section 79.2 of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations) in a manner accessible to individuals who are blind or visually impaired; and ‘‘(2) promulgate regulations that require video program- ming providers and video programming distributors (as those terms are defined in section 79.1 of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations) and program owners to convey such emergency information in a manner accessible to individuals who are blind or visually impaired. ‘‘(h) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section, section 303, and section 330: ‘‘(1) VIDEO DESCRIPTION.—The term ‘video description’ means the insertion of audio narrated descriptions of a tele- vision program’s key visual elements into natural pauses between the program’s dialogue. ‘‘(2) VIDEO PROGRAMMING.—The term ‘video programming’ means programming by, or generally considered comparable to programming provided by a television broadcast station, but not including consumer-generated media (as defined in section 3). (b) CLOSED CAPTIONING ON VIDEO PROGRAMMING DELIVERED USING INTERNET PROTOCOL.—Section 713 of such Act is further amended by striking subsection (c) and inserting the following: ‘‘(c) DEADLINES FOR CAPTIONING.— ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The regulations prescribed pursuant to subsection (b) shall include an appropriate schedule of deadlines for the provision of closed captioning of video programming once published or exhibited on television. ‘‘(2) DEADLINES FOR PROGRAMMING DELIVERED USING INTER- NET PROTOCOL.— ‘‘(A) REGULATIONS ON CLOSED CAPTIONING ON VIDEO PROGRAMMING DELIVERED USING INTERNET PROTOCOL.—Not later than 6 months after the submission of the report to the Commission required by subsection (e)(1) of the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessi- bility Act of 2010, the Commission shall revise its regula- tions to require the provision of closed captioning on video programming delivered using Internet protocol that was published or exhibited on television with captions after the effective date of such regulations. ‘‘(B) SCHEDULE.—The regulations prescribed under this paragraph shall include an appropriate schedule of dead- lines for the provision of closed captioning, taking into account whether such programming is prerecorded and edited for Internet distribution, or whether such program- ming is live or near-live and not edited for Internet dis- tribution. ‘‘(C) COST.—The Commission may delay or waive the regulation promulgated under subparagraph (A) to the extent the Commission finds that the application of the regulation to live video programming delivered using Inter- net protocol with captions after the effective date of such Waiver authority. 47 USC 613. Regulations. Deadline.
