H. R. 5728 
One Hundred Thirteenth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE SECOND SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday, 
the third day of January, two thousand and fourteen 
An Act 
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 and title 17, United States Code, 
to extend expiring provisions relating to the retransmission of signals of television 
broadcast stations, 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; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘STELA 
Reauthorization Act of 2014’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for this Act 
is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. No additional appropriations authorized. 
TITLE I—COMMUNICATIONS PROVISIONS 
Sec. 101. Extension of authority. 
Sec. 102. Modification of television markets to further consumer access to relevant 
television programming. 
Sec. 103. Consumer protections in retransmission consent. 
Sec. 104. Delayed application of JSA attribution rule. 
Sec. 105. Deletion or repositioning of stations during certain periods. 
Sec. 106. Repeal of integration ban. 
Sec. 107. Report on communications implications of statutory licensing modifica-
tions. 
Sec. 108. Local network channel broadcast reports. 
Sec. 109. Report on designated market areas. 
Sec. 110. Update to cable rates report. 
Sec. 111. Administrative reforms to effective competition petitions. 
Sec. 112. Definitions. 
TITLE II—COPYRIGHT PROVISIONS 
Sec. 201. Reauthorization. 
Sec. 202. Termination of license. 
Sec. 203. Local service area of a primary transmitter. 
Sec. 204. Market determinations. 
TITLE III—SEVERABILITY 
Sec. 301. Severability. 
SEC. 2. NO ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATIONS AUTHORIZED. 
No additional funds are authorized to carry out this Act, or 
the amendments made by this Act. This Act, and the amendments 
made by this Act, shall be carried out using amounts otherwise 
authorized or appropriated.
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TITLE I—COMMUNICATIONS 
PROVISIONS 
SEC. 101. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY. 
Section 325(b) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 
325(b)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2)(C), by striking ‘‘December 31, 2014’’ 
and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2019’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (3)(C), by striking ‘‘January 1, 2015’’ each 
place it appears and inserting ‘‘January 1, 2020’’. 
SEC. 102. MODIFICATION OF TELEVISION MARKETS TO FURTHER CON-
SUMER ACCESS TO RELEVANT TELEVISION PROGRAM-
MING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 338 of the Communications Act of 
1934 (47 U.S.C. 338) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(l) MARKET DETERMINATIONS.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—Following a written request, the 
Commission may, with respect to a particular commercial tele-
vision broadcast station, include additional communities within 
its local market or exclude communities from such station’s 
local market to better effectuate the purposes of this section. 
‘‘(2) CONSIDERATIONS.—In considering requests filed under 
paragraph (1), the Commission— 
‘‘(A) may determine that particular communities are 
part of more than one local market; and 
‘‘(B) shall afford particular attention to the value of 
localism by taking into account such factors as— 
‘‘(i) whether the station, or other stations located 
in the same area— 
‘‘(I) have been historically carried on the cable 
system or systems within such community; or 
‘‘(II) have been historically carried on the sat-
ellite carrier or carriers serving such community; 
‘‘(ii) whether the television station provides cov-
erage or other local service to such community; 
‘‘(iii) whether modifying the local market of the 
television station would promote consumers’ access to 
television broadcast station signals that originate in 
their State of residence; 
‘‘(iv) whether any other television station that is 
eligible to be carried by a satellite carrier in such 
community in fulfillment of the requirements of this 
section provides news coverage of issues of concern 
to such community or provides carriage or coverage 
of sporting and other events of interest to the commu-
nity; and 
‘‘(v) evidence of viewing patterns in households 
that subscribe and do not subscribe to the services 
offered by multichannel video programming distribu-
tors within the areas served by such multichannel 
video programming distributors in such community. 
‘‘(3) CARRIAGE OF SIGNALS.— 
‘‘(A) CARRIAGE OBLIGATION.—A market determination 
under this subsection shall not create additional carriage 
obligations for a satellite carrier if it is not technically