Resolution Number: 2003-C027
Title: Make the Church's Audio-visual Materials Accessible to All People
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred
Final Text:

Resolved, That the 74th General Convention require all audio-visual materials produced by and for the General Convention, and programs of the Executive Council and staff, be made accessible to all people:

  • by providing closed captioning in English for deaf and hard-of-hearing people, as well as subtitling or dubbing in Spanish and other languages where appropriate, and
  • by urging all producers of religious audio–visual materials to do the same.
Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Minneapolis, 2003 (New York: General Convention, 2004), p. 181.

Legislative History

Author: Diocese of Massachusetts
Originating House: House of Deputies
Originating Committee: Committee on Communications

House of Deputies

The House of Deputies Committee on Communications presented its Report #1 on Resolution C027 (AV Materials of The Episcopal Church) and moved adoption.

Original Text of Resolution:

(C027)

Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring, That the 74th General Convention require all audio-visual materials produced by and for the General Convention, and programs of the Executive Council and staff, be made accessible to all people:

  • by providing closed captioning in English for deaf and hard-of-hearing people, as well as subtitling or dubbing in Spanish and other languages where appropriate, and
  • by urging all producers of religious audio-visual materials to do the same.

Motion carried

Resolution adopted

(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #22)

House of Bishops

The House of Bishops Committee on Communications presented its Report #1 on HD Message #22 on Resolution C027 (AV Materials of The Episcopal Church) and moved concurrence.

The House concurred

(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #119)

Resolution Concurred by Both Houses, August 4.

Abstract:   The 74th General Convention requires all audio-visual materials produced by the Church to be made accessible to all people.