United States · Bill · S
S. 1881 (99th)
Local Signal Carriage Act of 1985
Introduced
22 November 1985
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Status
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.
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29 August 2025
Summary
Local Signal Carriage Act of 1985 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to provide that a cable system with 13 or more signals which fails to carry every local primary television broadcast station on a nondiscriminatory basis shall not be entitled to any compulsory license with respect to secondary transmissions of primary transmissions by licensed broadcast stations.
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Introduced in Senate
summary · EN · 22 November 1985
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- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/99th-congress/senate-bill/1881
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/99/s/1881