S. 3304 Passed by the House of Representatives

At around 9:00 p.m. yesterday evening, September 28, 2010, the U.S. House of Representatives passed (by voice vote) the Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 (S. 3304) and the technical corrections bill (S. 3828). The President has 10 days (excluding Sundays) to sign or veto a bill passed by Congress. If he does not do either in 10 days, the bill automatically becomes law.

On July 26, 2010, the U.S. House of Representatives passed [2] its version of the Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act,  H.R. 3101, by a vote of 348-23. Eleven days later, the Senate passed [3] its version, S. 3304, by unanimous consent. Last week the Senate passed [4] a technical amendment to S. 3304, primarily to fix typos found in the final version that was passed on August 5th.

The Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology (COAT) of which the NAD is a lead steering committee member, provides a summary of the bill at http://www.coataccess.org/node/9776 [5].