---
kind: "diff"
citation: "H.R. 4572"
bill: "113-hr-4572"
heading: "STELA Reauthorization Act of 2014"
from: "ih"
from_label: "Introduced in House"
to: "rh"
to_label: "Reported in House"
sections_amended: 2
sections_added: 1
sections_removed: 0
url: "https://uscodex.org/bills/113/hr/4572/changes/rh"
---

# H.R. 4572 — what changed

H.R. 4572, STELA Reauthorization Act of 2014 — 2 sections amended and 1 added between Introduced in House and Reported in House.

Edits are marked `<del>struck</del>` and `<ins>inserted</ins>`.

## Sec. 5 Deletion or repositioning of stations during certain periods

- (a) In general— Section 614(b)(9) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 534(b)(9)) is amended by striking the second sentence.
- (b) Revision of rules— Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commission shall revise section 76.1601 of its rules (47 <del>C.F.R. </del><ins>CFR </ins>76.1601) and any note to such section by removing the prohibition against deletion or repositioning of a local commercial television station during a period in which major television ratings services measure the size of audiences of local television stations.

## Sec. 9 Report on designated market areas

- <del>In </del><ins>Not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of </ins>this <del>Act:</del><ins>Act, the Commission shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report containing an analysis of—</ins>
- (1) <del>Appropriate congressional committees—</del> <del>The term “appropriate congressional committees” means </del>the <del>Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Committee on the Judiciary </del><ins>extent to which consumers in each local market (as defined in section 122(j) </ins>of <del>the House </del><ins>title 17, United States Code) have access to broadcast programming from television broadcast stations (as defined in section 325(b)(7) </ins>of <del>Representatives and </del>the <del>Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation </del><ins>Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 325(b)(7))) located outside their local market, including through carriage by cable operators </ins>and <del>the Committee on the Judiciary </del><ins>satellite carriers </ins>of <ins>signals that are significantly viewed (within </ins>the <del>Senate.</del><ins>meaning of section 340 of such Act (47 U.S.C. 340)); and</ins>
- (2) <del>Commission—</del> <del>The term “Commission” means </del><ins>whether there are technologically and economically feasible alternatives to </ins>the <del>Federal Communications Commission.</del><ins>use of designated market areas (as defined in section 122(j) of title 17, United States Code) to define markets that would provide consumers with more programming options and the potential impact such alternatives could have on localism and on broadcast television locally, regionally, and nationally.</ins>

## Sec. 10 Definitions — added

- <ins>In this Act:</ins>
- (1) <ins>Appropriate congressional committees—</ins> <ins>The term “appropriate congressional committees” means the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate.</ins>
- (2) <ins>Commission—</ins> <ins>The term “Commission” means the Federal Communications Commission.</ins>