3.0.0 328 2026-09-08T18:03:40Z 2026-09-08T18:03:40Z Senate S S 2025-01-30 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/328 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2025-01-30T17:43:08Z Stop Sports Blackouts Act of 2025 119 888 HR 2025-01-31 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Related bill CRS 2025-01-30 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. IntroReferral 2025-01-30 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M001169 Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT] Christopher Murphy D CT S. N Science, Technology, Communications Science, Technology, Communications 2025-03-03T17:30:20Z 00 2025-01-30 Introduced in Senate 2025-03-13T13:38:27Z Stop Sports Blackouts Act

This bill requires cable and satellite broadcast providers to issue rebates to customers who are denied access to video programming included in their subscription because of programming negotiations. 

Specifically, where a provider’s negotiations related to the retransmission or carriage of video programming result in the provider failing to offer access to programming included in a customer’s subscription, the customer must be issued a rebate for the affected period. The Federal Communications Commission is directed to issue rules to this effect, including to establish the appropriate amount for such a rebate.  

]]> Stop Sports Blackouts Act Display Title 45 Stop Sports Blackouts Act 2025-02-28T03:53:20Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Stop Sports Blackouts Act 2025-02-28T03:53:19Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission to promulgate regulations with respect to rebates for certain video programming blackouts, and for other purposes. 2025-02-28T03:48:19Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2025-01-30T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s328is/xml/BILLS-119s328is.xml 2025-01-30 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.