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116TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-354
SATELLITE TELEVISION COMMUNITY PROTECTION AND
PROMOTION ACT OF 2019
DECEMBER 17, 2019.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. NADLER, from the Committee on the Judiciary,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 5140]
The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill
(H.R. 5140) to amend title 17, United States Code, to narrow the
category of households eligible to receive signals under a distant-
signal satellite license, and for other purposes, having considered
the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and rec-
ommend that the bill as amended do pass.
CONTENTS
Page
Purpose and Sum m ary ........................................................................................... 4
Background and Need for the Legislation ............................................................ 4
H e a rin g s ................................................................................................................... 7
C om m ittee C onsideration ....................................................................................... 7
C om m ittee V otes ...................................................................................................... 7
Com m ittee Oversight Findings ............................................................................... 7
New Budget Authority and Tax Expenditures and Congressional Budget Of-
fice C ost E stim ate ............................................................................................... 8
Duplication of Federal Program s ........................................................................... 8
Perform ance Goals and Objectives ......................................................................... 8
A dvisory on E arm ark s ............................................................................................ . 8
Section-by-Section A nalysis ................................................................................... . 8
Changes in Existing Law Made by the Bill, as Reported ..................................... 10
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Satellite Television Community Protection and Pro-
motion Act of 2019.
SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY TO RECEIVE SIGNALS UNDER A DISTANT-SIGNAL SATELLITE LICENSE.
(a) IN GENERAL.-Section 119 of title 17, United States Code, is amended-
(1) in subsection (a)-
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