[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1999 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1999

  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 and to 
  prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from imposing radio 
                   tuner mandates for mobile devices.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 23, 2015

  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 and to 
  prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from imposing radio 
                   tuner mandates for mobile devices.

    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.''.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON RADIO TUNER MANDATES FOR MOBILE DEVICES.

    Part I of title III of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 
301 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 343. PROHIBITION ON RADIO TUNER MANDATES FOR MOBILE DEVICES.

    ``(a) In General.--The Commission may not require a mobile device 
to be equipped with a tuner for receiving the signals of AM or FM radio 
broadcast stations.
    ``(b) Mobile Device Defined.--In this section, the term `mobile 
device' means--
            ``(1) a device that--
                    ``(A) is designed to be carried on the person of 
                the user or to be reasonably portable;
                    ``(B) provides computing and communications 
                functionality; and
                    ``(C) is capable of providing access to commercial 
                mobile service (as defined in section 332) or 
                commercial mobile data service (as defined in section 
                6001 of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation 
                Act of 2012 (47 U.S.C. 1401)); or
            ``(2) a device that is comparable to a device described in 
        paragraph (1), except for lacking the capability described in 
        subparagraph (C) of such paragraph.''.
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