113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5728 
AN ACT 
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 and title 17, 
United States Code, to extend expiring provisions relat-
ing to the retransmission of signals of television broad-
cast stations, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives 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 rel-
evant 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 modi-
fications. 
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.
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 ‘‘Janu-
ary 1, 2020’’. 
SEC. 102. MODIFICATION OF TELEVISION MARKETS TO 
FURTHER CONSUMER ACCESS TO RELEVANT 
TELEVISION PROGRAMMING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 338 of the Communica-
tions 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 re-
quest, the Commission may, with respect to a par-
ticular commercial television broadcast station, in-
clude additional communities within its local market 
or exclude communities from such station’s local 
market to better effectuate the purposes of this sec-
tion.
‘‘(2) CONSIDERATIONS.—In considering re-
quests filed under paragraph (1), the Commission— 
‘‘(A) may determine that particular com-
munities are part of more than one local mar-
ket; and 
‘‘(B) shall afford particular attention to 
the value of localism by taking into account 
such factors as— 
‘‘(i) whether the station, or other sta-
tions located in the same area— 
‘‘(I) have been historically carried 
on the cable system or systems within 
such community; or 
‘‘(II) have been historically car-
ried on the satellite carrier or carriers 
serving such community; 
‘‘(ii) whether the television station 
provides coverage or other local service to 
such community; 
‘‘(iii) whether modifying the local 
market of the television station would pro-
mote consumers’ access to television broad-
cast station signals that originate in their 
State of residence;
‘‘(iv) whether any other television sta-
tion that is eligible to be carried by a sat-
ellite carrier in such community in fulfill-
ment 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 community; and 
‘‘(v) evidence of viewing patterns in 
households that subscribe and do not sub-
scribe to the services offered by multi-
channel video programming distributors 
within the areas served by such multi-
channel 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 sat-
ellite carrier if it is not technically and economi-
cally feasible for such carrier to accomplish 
such carriage by means of its satellites in oper-
ation at the time of the determination. 
‘‘(B) DELETION OF SIGNALS.—A satellite 
carrier shall not delete from carriage the signal