A bill to amend title 17, United States Code, to extend expiring provisions of the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act of 2010.
Satellite Television Access Reauthorization Act of 2014 - Amends federal copyright law, as amended by the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act of 2010 (STELA), to extend until December 31, 2019, the statutory license under which satellite carriers retransmit distant television broadcast stations to viewers who are unable to receive signals for such stations in their local market. (Currently, the statutory licensing authority for such satellite retransmissions is scheduled to expire on December 31, 2014.)
Expands the local service area for cable retransmissions of low power television stations.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 410.
By Senator Rockefeller from Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation filed written report. Report No. 113-322.
Introduced in Senate
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3546)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3546)
Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 445.
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