[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4588 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4588

  To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to deny the right to grant 
retransmission consent to a television broadcast station if an AM or FM 
radio broadcast station licensed to the same licensee transmits a sound 
       recording without providing compensation for programming.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 7, 2014

  Mrs. Blackburn (for herself and Ms. Eshoo) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to deny the right to grant 
retransmission consent to a television broadcast station if an AM or FM 
radio broadcast station licensed to the same licensee transmits a sound 
       recording without providing compensation for programming.

    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 ``Protecting the Rights of Musicians 
Act''.

SEC. 2. EFFECT OF CERTAIN RADIO TRANSMISSIONS ON RIGHT TO GRANT 
              TELEVISION RETRANSMISSION CONSENT.

    Section 325(b)(2) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 
325(b)(2)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (D), by striking ``or'' at the end;
            (2) in subparagraph (E), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; or''; and
            (3) by inserting after subparagraph (E) the following:
            ``(F) to retransmission of the signal of a television 
        broadcast station if the licensee of such station is also the 
        licensee of an AM or FM radio broadcast station and, during the 
        term of the license for such television broadcast station in 
        which such retransmission occurs, such licensee has transmitted 
        a sound recording over such radio station without providing 
        compensation for all programming carried over the signal.''.
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