Satellite Competition and Consumer Protection Act

Summary

Save Our Satellites Act of 1999 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish different predictive models for making determinations of the television broadcast signal boundaries of areas within the Grade B Contour of television broadcast stations for purposes of such Act and other Federal statutes and regulations. Requires any subscriber who, on February 24, 1999, is receiving from a satellite carrier for private home viewing secondary transmissions of programming contained in a primary transmission made by a network station, to be treated, during the period beginning on such date and until the FCC completes the above action, as residing in an unserved household for purposes of Federal copyright license requirements for secondary transmissions by satellite carriers.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

6 official files

• Reported in House (text)

  Reported in House · EN · 16 April 1999

  ViewDownloadOpen at official source

• Reported in House (PDF)

  Reported in House · EN · 16 April 1999

  ViewDownloadOpen at official source

• Reported to House amended, Part I

  summary · EN · 7 April 1999

  Open at official source

• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN · 25 February 1999

  ViewDownloadOpen at official source

• Introduced in House (PDF)

  Introduced in House · EN · 25 February 1999

  ViewDownloadOpen at official source

• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 25 February 1999

  Open at official source

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.