S 2454
116th Congress
Senate
Science, Technology, Communications
Administrative remedies
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Consumer affairs
Wisconsin
Go Pack Go Act of 2019
Introduced: September 10, 2019
Introduced by:
Baldwin, Tammy
Democratic
· Wisconsin
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Sep 10, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Sep 10, 2019
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Go Pack Go Act of 2019
This bill requires a cable operator or satellite carrier to provide their subscribers in specified Wisconsin counties (i.e., Ashland, Barron, Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Dunn, Florence, Iron, Pierce, Polk, Sawyer, St. Croix, or Washburn) the choice of retransmission of (1) the signal of any local network station that the operator or carrier is required to retransmit to the subscriber; (2) an in-state, adjacent-market network station; or (3) both. This will allow residents of such Wisconsin counties currently assigned to an out-of-state Minnesota television market to access programming in Wisconsin.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Committees of jurisdiction
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