Senate Judiciary Committee leadership will likely introduce its...
Senate Judiciary Committee leadership will likely introduce its expected Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act reauthorization bill (CD June 9 p1) on the sooner side of this week. Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and ranking member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, seem to…
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be responsible for what is a straight reauthorization bill, and plan to introduce it Tuesday, one Republican aide to a different Judiciary member told us, saying his office had not seen draft text. A media industry lobbyist also called the bill “relatively clean” and said it’s expected to be introduced early this week. The Judiciary bill is uncontroversial and a short two pages, not trying to do much beyond reauthorizing STELA, a communications industry lobbyist said. The bill would extend the Copyright Act Section 119 license for five years and make some small technical tweaks to sections 111 and 119, he said. But watch out for other Judiciary lawmakers who are already gearing up with amendments, that lobbyist said, expecting some to be attached to the final version cleared during a markup session a few weeks from now. “People are starting to look at the clock,” the lobbyist said, pointing to other committees focused on STELA drafts. There’s increased dialogue between Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and ranking member John Thune, R-S.D., according to the lobbyist. STELA will expire at the end of the year unless Congress reauthorizes it. Commerce and Judiciary in both chambers have jurisdiction.