2E Establishing an accessible electronic information service for eligible blind and disabled persons, requiring the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) to enter into agreements with qualified entities to provide an accessible electronic information service; requiring the commissioner of human services to enter into grant agreements with television stations for live local news programming assessible to deaf, hard of hearing, and deaf-blind persons, specifying certain agreements relating the real time captioning, defining real time captioning; establishing maximum annual budgets for the information service and the news programming under the telecommunications access Minnesota fund, requiring a pro rata expenditures reduction under certain insufficient balance conditions; sunset provision
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