Section 1101 · Short Title.

This title may be cited as the “Satellite Television Community Protection and Promotion Act of 2019”.

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Section 1102 · Eligibility to Receive Signals Under a Distant-Signal Satellite License.

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(b) Previously Covered Subscribers under the STELA Reauthorization Act of 2014.—

(1) In general.—A subscriber of a satellite carrier who receives the secondary transmission of a network station under the statutory license in section 119 of title 17, United States Code, as in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act, and to whom subsection (a)(2)(B) of such section, as amended by subsection (a), does not apply, shall continue to be eligible to receive that secondary transmission from such carrier under such license, and at the royalty rate established for such license by the Copyright Royalty Board or voluntary agreement, as applicable, until the date that is the earlier of—

(A) May 31, 2020; or

(B) the date on which such carrier provides local-into-local service to all DMAs.

(2) Definitions.—In this subsection, the terms “satellite carrier”, “subscriber”, “secondary transmission”, “network station”, and “local-into-local service to all DMAs” have the meaning given those terms in section 119 of title 17, United States Code.