§ 7-e. Assistive listening system for the deaf and hard of hearing.
(a) The temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the
assembly shall have the power and it shall be their individual duty to
equip the senate chambers, the assembly chambers and any hearing rooms
located in the legislative office building in Albany which accommodate
more than one hundred persons with an assistive listening system for use
by the deaf and hard of hearing.

(b) For purposes of this section, the term "assistive listening
system" shall mean situational-personal acoustic communication equipment
designed to improve the transmission and auditory reception of sound.
Such system shall include but not be limited to the use of standard
amplitude modulation (AM), frequency modulation (FM), audio induction
loop, infrared light sound, or hard wire systems.