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Save Our Satellites Act of 1999

Introduced: February 25, 1999 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 14 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 27, 1999
See H.R.1554.
Apr 16, 1999
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 51.
Apr 16, 1999
Committee on Judiciary discharged.
Apr 7, 1999
House Committee on Judiciary Granted an extension for further consideration ending not later than April 16, 1999.
Apr 7, 1999
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Commerce. H. Rept. 106-79, Part I. Filed late, pursuant to previous special order.
Mar 25, 1999
Mr. Tauzin asked unanimous consent that the Committee on Commerce have until midnight on April 9 to file a report on H.R. 851. Agreed to without objection.
Mar 25, 1999
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Mar 25, 1999
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Mar 10, 1999
Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property.
Mar 4, 1999
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Mar 4, 1999
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Mar 3, 1999
Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection.
Feb 25, 1999
Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Feb 25, 1999
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Save Our Satellites Act of 1999 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish different predictive models for making determinations of the television broadcast signal boundaries of areas within the Grade B Contour of television broadcast stations for purposes of such Act and other Federal statutes and regulations.

Requires any subscriber who, on February 24, 1999, is receiving from a satellite carrier for private home viewing secondary transmissions of programming contained in a primary transmission made by a network station, to be treated, during the period beginning on such date and until the FCC completes the above action, as residing in an unserved household for purposes of Federal copyright license requirements for secondary transmissions by satellite carriers.

What's happening now April 27, 1999

See H.R.1554.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 1554 Procedurally related Satellite Copyright, Competition, and Consumer Protection Act of 1999
 Bill text 2 versions

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 6
All 6 Democratic 3 Republican 2 Independent 1
R
Aderholt, Robert B.
Alabama · Mar 24, 1999
 R
Calvert, Ken
California · Mar 24, 1999
 D
Thompson, Mike
California · Mar 24, 1999
 D
Thompson, Bennie G.
Mississippi · Mar 11, 1999
 I
Sanders, Bernard
Vermont · Mar 4, 1999
 D
Markey, Edward J.
Massachusetts · Feb 25, 1999
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 851: Satellite Competition and Consumer Protection Act. 106th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-851/
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