Satellite Television Access Reauthorization Act of 2014

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

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.)

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5036 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5036

To amend title 17, United States Code, to extend expiring provisions of 
      the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act of 2010.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 9, 2014

  Mr. Coble (for himself and Mr. Goodlatte) introduced the following 
       bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 17, United States Code, to extend expiring provisions of 
      the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act of 2010.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Satellite Television Access 
Reauthorization Act of 2014''.

SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION.

    Chapter 1 of title 17, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in section 111(d)(3)--
                    (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by 
                striking ``clause'' and inserting ``paragraph''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``clause'' and 
                inserting ``paragraph''; and
            (2) in section 119--
                    (A) in subsection (c)(1)(E), by striking ``2014'' 
                and inserting ``2019''; and
                    (B) in subsection (e), by striking ``2014'' and 
                inserting ``2019''.

SEC. 3. TERMINATION OF LICENSE.

    (a) In General.--Section 119 of title 17, United States Code, as 
amended in section 2, is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(h) Termination of License.--This section shall cease to be 
effective on December 31, 2019.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 107(a) of the Satellite 
Television Extension and Localism Act of 2010 (17 U.S.C. 119 note) is 
repealed.
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