H.R. 927 · 111th Congress
Satellite Consumers' Right to Local Channels Act
- Stage
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Bart Stupak
- Introduced
- 2009-02-09
- Latest action
- 2009-02-10 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.
Summary
Satellite Consumers' Right to Local Channels Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require each satellite carrier providing secondary transmissions in the local market of a television broadcast station to carry, on request, the signals of all television broadcast stations located within any local market (under current law, located within that local market), subject to existing broadcast signal retransmission consent provisions.