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 124 STAT. 2751 PUBLIC LAW 111–260—OCT. 8, 2010 Public Law 111–260 111th Congress An Act To increase the access of persons with disabilities to modern communications, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010’’. (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.— Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Limitation on liability. Sec. 3. Proprietary technology. TITLE I—COMMUNICATIONS ACCESS Sec. 101. Definitions. Sec. 102. Hearing aid compatibility. Sec. 103. Relay services. Sec. 104. Access to advanced communications services and equipment. Sec. 105. Universal service. Sec. 106. Emergency Access Advisory Committee. TITLE II—VIDEO PROGRAMMING Sec. 201. Video Programming and Emergency Access Advisory Committee. Sec. 202. Video description and closed captioning. Sec. 203. Closed captioning decoder and video description capability. Sec. 204. User interfaces on digital apparatus. Sec. 205. Access to video programming guides and menus provided on navigation devices. Sec. 206. Definitions. SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON LIABILITY. (a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subsection (b), no per- son shall be liable for a violation of the requirements of this Act (or of the provisions of the Communications Act of 1934 that are amended or added by this Act) with respect to video programming, online content, applications, services, advanced communications services, or equipment used to provide or access advanced commu- nications services to the extent such person— (1) transmits, routes, or stores in intermediate or transient storage the communications made available through the provi- sion of advanced communications services by a third party; or (2) provides an information location tool, such as a direc- tory, index, reference, pointer, menu, guide, user interface, or hypertext link, through which an end user obtains access 47 USC 153 note. 47 USC 609 note. Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010. Oct. 8, 2010 [S. 3304]