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Senate Bill 2829
116th Congress(2019-2020)
WEST Access Act
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S. 2829 (Introduced-in-Senate)


116th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 2829


To amend the Communications Act of 1934 and title 17, United States Code, to enhance the ability of direct broadcast satellite providers to offer additional local broadcast services to consumers under limited circumstances, and for other purposes.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

November 7, 2019

Mrs. Fischer introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

A BILL

To amend the Communications Act of 1934 and title 17, United States Code, to enhance the ability of direct broadcast satellite providers to offer additional local broadcast services to consumers under limited circumstances, and for other purposes.

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 “Western Expanded In-State Television Access Act of 2019” or the “WEST Access Act”.

SEC. 2. Secondary transmissions of local television programming by satellite.

Section 122(a)(4) of title 17, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(F) CERTAIN NETWORK STATIONS.—On January 1, 2019, if 16 counties in a single State were in a local market comprised principally of counties located in another State and within the top 120 markets for the year 2019 according to Nielsen Media Research, the statutory license provided for in this paragraph shall apply to the secondary transmission by a satellite carrier to subscribers in any of those 16 counties of the primary transmissions of any network station assigned to a local market that includes not more than 4 counties in the State in which such 16 counties are located and all counties encompassed by such local market are located in the same time zone.”.

SEC. 3. Carriage of local television signals by satellite carriers.

Section 338(l) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 338(l)) is amended—

(1) by redesignating paragraphs (3), (4), and (5) as paragraphs (4), (5), and (6), respectively; and

(2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:

“(3) SPECIAL CONSIDERATION FOR REQUESTS INVOLVING AN ORPHAN COUNTY.—Pursuant to a request under paragraph (1), the Commission may modify the local market of a television broadcast station to add an orphan county, as defined by the Commission, solely on the basis of paragraph (2)(B)(iii), if the Commission considers whether the station provides programming specifically related to the State of residence of the orphan county subscribers.”.