1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Performance Royalty Owners of Music Opportunity To Earn Act of 2017 or the PROMOTE Act of 2017 . 2. Exclusive right of an owner of copyright to prohibit the broadcast transmission of a copyrighted sound recording by a terrestrial radio station (a) In general Section 106 of title 17, United States Code, is amended— (1) in paragraph (5), by striking ; and and inserting a semicolon; (2) in paragraph (6), by striking the period and inserting ; and ; and (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (7) to prohibit performance of a sound recording publicly by means of a broadcast transmission (as that term is defined in section 114(k)) by a terrestrial radio station. . (b) Limitation on exclusive right To prohibit the broadcast transmission of a sound recording by means of a terrestrial radio station Section 114 of title 17, United States Code, is amended— (1) in subsection (a), by striking (3) and (6) and inserting (3), (6), and (7) ; (2) by redesignating subsection (j) as subsection (k); and (3) by inserting after subsection (i) the following new subsection: (j) Limitation on exclusive right To prohibit the broadcast transmission of a sound recording by a terrestrial radio station (1) In general An owner of copyright in a sound recording may not exercise the exclusive right under paragraph (7) of section 106 to prohibit the broadcast transmission of the sound recording by a terrestrial radio station with regard to— (A) a terrestrial radio station that pays the applicable royalties under terms described in paragraph (2); (B) a broadcast transmission of a sound recording of religious services; (C) a broadcast transmission by an educational terrestrial radio station; (D) a broadcast transmission by a terrestrial radio station conforming to rules established for low-power FM radio stations in subpart G of part 73 of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations