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HR 927 111th Congress House

Satellite Consumers' Right to Local Channels Act

Official title: To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to expand satellite carriage of local television signals, and for other purposes.

Introduced: March 16, 2009 See on congress.gov
Science, Technology, Communications Broadcasting, cable, digital technologiesSpacecraft and satellitesTelevision and film
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Became law
Feb 10, 2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.
Feb 9, 2009
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Feb 9, 2009
Introduced in House
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 Latest action February 10, 2009

Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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.

 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 6
All 6 Democratic 3 Republican 2
R
Rogers, Harold
Kentucky · May 11, 2009
Kratovil, Frank
· Apr 29, 2009
 D
Bishop, Sanford D.
Georgia · Mar 16, 2009
 D
Thompson, Bennie G.
Mississippi · Mar 5, 2009
 D
Thompson, Mike
California · Mar 5, 2009
 R
Rogers, Mike D.
Alabama · Feb 23, 2009
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 927: Satellite Consumers' Right to Local Channels Act. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-927/
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