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<item congress="113" measure-type="hr" measure-number="5036" measure-id="id113hr5036" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2014-07-09" update-date="2014-08-04">
<title>Satellite Television Access Reauthorization Act of 2014</title>
<summary summary-id="id113hr5036v79" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2014-08-04">
<action-date>2014-07-22</action-date>
<action-desc>Reported to House without amendment</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><b>(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)</b></p> <p> Satellite Television Access Reauthorization Act of 2014 - Amends federal copyright law, as amended by the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act of 2010 (STELA), to extend until December 31, 2019, the statutory license under which satellite carriers retransmit distant television broadcast stations to viewers who are unable to receive signals for such stations in their local market. (Currently, the statutory licensing authority for such satellite retransmissions is scheduled to expire on December 31, 2014.)</p>]]></summary-text>
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<summary summary-id="id113hr5036v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2014-08-04">
<action-date>2014-07-09</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Satellite Television Access Reauthorization Act of 2014 - Amends federal copyright law, as amended by the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act of 2010 (STELA), to extend until December 31, 2019, the statutory license under which satellite carriers retransmit distant television broadcast stations to viewers who are unable to receive signals for such stations in their local market. (Currently, the statutory licensing authority for such satellite retransmissions is scheduled to expire on December 31, 2014.)</p>]]></summary-text>
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