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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2443 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To eliminate taxpayer funding for the partisan broadcasting outlets known |
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| 6 | 6 | | as National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, and |
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| 7 | 7 | | for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | MARCH27, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. J |
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| 11 | 11 | | ACKSONof Texas (for himself, Mr. DUNNof Florida, Mr. BURCHETT, |
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| 12 | 12 | | Mr. C |
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| 13 | 13 | | OLLINS, Mr. NEHLS, Mr. CLOUD, Mr. SELF, Mr. WEBERof Texas, |
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| 14 | 14 | | Mr. B |
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| 15 | 15 | | IGGSof Arizona, Ms. GREENEof Georgia, Mr. ARRINGTON, Mr. |
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| 17 | 17 | | OSAR, and Mr. ROY) introduced the following bill; which was referred |
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| 18 | 18 | | to the Committee on Energy and Commerce |
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| 19 | 19 | | A BILL |
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| 20 | 20 | | To eliminate taxpayer funding for the partisan broadcasting |
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| 21 | 21 | | outlets known as National Public Radio and the Public |
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| 22 | 22 | | Broadcasting Service, and for other purposes. |
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| 23 | 23 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 24 | 24 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 25 | 25 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 26 | 26 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘No Partisan Radio 4 |
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| 27 | 27 | | and Partisan Broadcasting Services Act’’ or the ‘‘NPR 5 |
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| 28 | 28 | | and PBS Act’’. 6 |
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| 31 | 31 | | •HR 2443 IH |
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| 32 | 32 | | SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON FEDERAL FUNDING FOR NA-1 |
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| 33 | 33 | | TIONAL PUBLIC RADIO AND PUBLIC BROAD-2 |
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| 34 | 34 | | CASTING SERVICE. 3 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (a) I |
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| 36 | 36 | | NGENERAL.—After the date of the enactment 4 |
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| 37 | 37 | | of this Act, no Federal funds may, directly or indirectly, 5 |
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| 38 | 38 | | be made available to or used to support an organization 6 |
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| 39 | 39 | | described in subsection (b), including through the payment 7 |
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| 40 | 40 | | of dues to or the purchase of programming from such or-8 |
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| 41 | 41 | | ganization by a public broadcast station using Federal 9 |
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| 42 | 42 | | funds received by such station. 10 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (b) O |
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| 44 | 44 | | RGANIZATIONSDESCRIBED.—The organizations 11 |
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| 45 | 45 | | described in this subsection are— 12 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (1) the organization known, as of the date of 13 |
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| 47 | 47 | | the enactment of this Act, as ‘‘National Public 14 |
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| 48 | 48 | | Radio’’; 15 |
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| 49 | 49 | | (2) the organization known, as of the date of 16 |
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| 50 | 50 | | the enactment of this Act, as the ‘‘Public Broad-17 |
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| 51 | 51 | | casting Service’’; and 18 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (3) any successor organization to an organiza-19 |
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| 53 | 53 | | tion described in paragraph (1) or (2). 20 |
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