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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 1690
To limit the use of funds for the production of films using assets of the
Department of State under certain circumstances, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY27, 2025
Mr. G
REENof Tennessee (for himself, Mr. MOYLAN, and Ms. SALAZAR) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign
Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government
Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned
A BILL
To limit the use of funds for the production of films using
assets of the Department of State under certain cir-
cumstances, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stopping Communist 4
Regimes from Engaging in Edits Now Act’’ or the 5
‘‘SCREEN Act’’. 6
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SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR PRODUCTION 1
OF FILMS AND PROHIBITION ON USE OF 2
SUCH FUNDS FOR FILMS SUBJECT TO CONDI-3
TIONS ON CONTENT OR ALTERED FOR 4
SCREENING IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF 5
CHINA OR AT THE REQUEST OF THE CHINESE 6
COMMUNIST PARTY. 7
(a) L
IMITATION ONUSE OFFUNDS.—The Secretary 8
of State may only authorize the provision of technical sup-9
port or access to an asset controlled by or related to the 10
Department of State to enter into a contract relating to 11
the production or funding of a film by a United States 12
company if the United States company, as a condition of 13
receiving the support or access— 14
(1) provides to the Secretary a list of all films 15
produced or funded by that company the content of 16
which has been submitted, during the shorter of the 17
preceding 10-year period or the period beginning on 18
the date of the enactment of this Act, to an official 19
of the Government of the People’s Republic of China 20
or the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for evalua-21
tion with respect to screening the film in the Peo-22
ple’s Republic of China (PRC); 23
(2) includes, with respect to each such film— 24
(A) the title of the film; and 25
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(B) the date on which such submission oc-1
curred; 2
(3) enters into a written agreement with the 3
Secretary not to alter the content of the film in re-4
sponse to, or in anticipation of, a request by an offi-5
cial of the Government of the PRC or the CCP; and 6
(4) submits such agreement to the Secretary. 7
(b) P
ROHIBITIONWITHRESPECT TOFILMSSUB-8
JECT TOCONDITIONS ONCONTENT ORALTERED FOR 9
S
CREENING IN THE PEOPLE’SREPUBLIC OFCHINA.— 10
Notwithstanding subsection (a), the President may not au-11
thorize the provision of technical support or access to any 12
asset controlled by the Federal Government for, or author-13
ize the head of a Federal agency to enter into any contract 14
relating to, the production or funding of a film by a United 15
States company if— 16
(1) the film is co-produced by an entity located 17
in the PRC that is subject to conditions on content 18
imposed by an official of the Government of the 19
PRC or the CCP; or 20
(2) with respect to the most recent report sub-21
mitted under subsection (c), the United States com-22
pany is listed in the report pursuant to subpara-23
graph (C) or (D) of paragraph (2) of that sub-24
section. 25
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(c) REPORT TOCONGRESS.— 1
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 2
after the date of the enactment of this Act, and an-3
nually thereafter, the Secretary of State shall submit 4
to the appropriate committees of Congress a report 5
on films disclosed under subsection (a) that are as-6
sociated with a United States company that has re-7
ceived technical support or access to an asset con-8
trolled by the Department of State for, or has en-9
tered into a contract with the Federal Government 10
relating to, the production or funding of a film. 11
(2) E
LEMENTS.—The report required by para-12
graph (1) shall include the following: 13
(A) A description of each film listed pursu-14
ant to the requirement under subsection (a)(1), 15
the content of which was submitted, during the 16
shorter of the preceding 10-year period or the 17
period beginning on the date of the enactment 18
of this Act, by a United States company to an 19
official of the Government of the PRC or the 20
CCP for evaluation with respect to screening 21
the film in the PRC, including— 22
(i) the United States company that 23
submitted the contents of the film; 24
(ii) the title of the film; and 25
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(iii) the date on which such submis-1
sion occurred. 2
(B) A description of each film with respect 3
to which a United States company entered into 4
a written agreement with the Department of 5
State, providing the support or access, pursuant 6
to the requirement under subsection (a)(2) not 7
to alter the content of the film in response to, 8
or in anticipation of, a request by an official of 9
the Government of the PRC or the CCP, during 10
the shorter of the preceding 10-year period or 11
the period beginning on the date of the enact-12
ment of this Act, including— 13
(i) the United States company that 14
entered into the agreement; and 15
(ii) the title of the film. 16
(C) The title of any film described pursu-17
ant to subparagraph (A), and the corresponding 18
United States company described pursuant to 19
clause (i) of that subparagraph— 20
(i) that was submitted to an official of 21
the Government of the PRC or the CCP 22
during the preceding 3-year period; and 23
(ii) for which the Secretary assesses 24
that the content was altered in response to, 25
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or in anticipation of, a request by an offi-1
cial of the Government of the PRC or the 2
CCP. 3
(D) The title of any film that is described 4
in both subparagraph (A) and subparagraph 5
(B), and the corresponding one or more United 6
States companies described in clause (i) of each 7
such subparagraph— 8
(i) that was submitted to an official of 9
the Government of the PRC or the CCP 10
during the preceding 10-year period; and 11
(ii) for which the Secretary assesses 12
that the content was altered in response to, 13
or in anticipation of, a request by an offi-14
cial of the Government of the PRC or the 15
CCP. 16
(d) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 17
(1) A
PPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CON -18
GRESS.—The term ‘‘appropriate committees of Con-19
gress’’ means— 20
(A) the Committee on Foreign Relations of 21
the Senate; and 22
(B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 23
the House of Representatives. 24
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(2) CONTENT.—The term ‘‘content’’ means any 1
description of a film, including the script. 2
(3) U
NITED STATES COMPANY .—The term 3
‘‘United States company’’ means a private entity in-4
corporated under the laws of the United States or 5
any jurisdiction within the United States. 6
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