[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1485 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1485

To extend certain satellite carrier compulsory licenses, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

           September 22 (legislative day, September 7), 1993

 Mr. DeConcini introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To extend certain satellite carrier compulsory licenses, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Satellite Carrier Compulsory License 
Extension Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. STATUTORY LICENSE FOR SATELLITE CARRIERS.

    Section 119 of title 17, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(2)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (C)--
                            (i) by striking out ``90 days after the 
                        effective date of the Satellite Home Viewer Act 
                        of 1988, or'';
                            (ii) by striking out ``whichever is 
                        later,'';
                            (iii) by inserting ``name and'' after 
                        ``identifying (by'' each place it appears; and
                            (iv) by striking out ``, on or after the 
                        effective date of the Satellite Home Viewer Act 
                        of 1988,''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end thereof the following new 
                subparagraph:
                    ``(D) Sample site measurements.--On or before 
                January 1, 1995, and thereafter on or before each 
                January 1, upon the request of a network each satellite 
                carrier referred to under subparagraph (C) shall, 
                jointly with that network, conduct measurements of the 
                reception of over-the-air television broadcast signals 
                of network stations affiliated with that network. The 
                foregoing measurements shall be conducted within the 
                predicted Grade B contours of up to 5 network 
                affiliated stations selected by the network and taken 
                at up to 20 subscriber households per affiliated 
                station that are selected by the network.'';
            (2) in subsection (a)(5)(C) by striking out ``the Satellite 
        Home Viewer Act of 1988'' and inserting in lieu thereof ``this 
        section'';
            (3) in subsection (b)(1)(B)--
                    (A) in clause (i) by striking out ``12 cents'' and 
                inserting in lieu thereof ``17.5 cents per subscriber 
                in the case of superstations not subject to syndicated 
                exclusivity under the regulations of the Federal 
                Communications Commission, and 14 cents per subscriber 
                in the case of superstations subject to such syndicated 
                exclusivity''; and
                    (B) in clause (ii) by striking out ``3'' and 
                inserting in lieu thereof ``6'';
            (4) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) in the heading by striking out 
                ``Determination'' and inserting in lieu thereof 
                ``Adjustment'';
                    (B) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) by striking out ``December 31, 1992, 
                        unless''; and
                            (ii) by striking out ``After that date,'' 
                        and inserting in lieu thereof ``All adjustments 
                        of'';
                    (C) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (A) by striking out 
                        ``July 1, 1991,'' and inserting in lieu thereof 
                        ``January 1, 1996, and every 5 years 
                        thereafter,''; and
                            (ii) in subparagraph (D) by striking out 
                        ``until December 31, 1994'' and inserting in 
                        lieu thereof ``in accordance with the terms of 
                        the agreement''; and
                    (D) in paragraph (3)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (A) by striking out 
                        ``December 31, 1991,'' and inserting in lieu 
                        thereof ``July 1, 1996, and every 5 years 
                        thereafter,'';
                            (ii) in subparagraph (E) by striking out 
                        ``60'' and inserting in lieu thereof ``180''; 
                        and
                            (iii) in subparagraph (G) by striking out 
                        ``, or until December 31, 1994''; and
            (5) in subsection (d)--
                    (A) by amending paragraph (2) to read as follows:
            ``(2) Network station.--The term `network station' means a 
        television broadcast station, including any translator station 
        or terrestrial satellite station that rebroadcasts all or 
        substantially all of the programming broadcast by a network 
        station, that is owned or operated by, or affiliated with, one 
        or more of the television networks in the United States which 
        offer an interconnected program service on a regular basis for 
        15 or more hours per week to at least 25 of its affiliated 
        television licensees in 10 or more States.''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (6) by inserting ``, and operates 
                in the Fixed Satellite Service under part 25 of title 
                47 of the Code of Federal Regulations or the Direct 
                Broadcast Satellite Service under part 100 of title 47 
                of the Code of Federal Regulations,'' after 
                ``Commission''.

SEC. 3. CABLE COMPULSORY LICENSE.

    Section 111(f) of title 17, United States Code, is amended in the 
paragraph relating to the definition of ``cable system'' by striking 
out ``wires, cables'' and inserting in lieu thereof ``wires, microwave 
cables, terrestrially based transmission paths,''.

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