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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2443
To eliminate taxpayer funding for the partisan broadcasting outlets known
as National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, and
for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH27, 2025
Mr. J
ACKSONof Texas (for himself, Mr. DUNNof Florida, Mr. BURCHETT,
Mr. C
OLLINS, Mr. NEHLS, Mr. CLOUD, Mr. SELF, Mr. WEBERof Texas,
Mr. B
IGGSof Arizona, Ms. GREENEof Georgia, Mr. ARRINGTON, Mr.
G
OSAR, and Mr. ROY) introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
A BILL
To eliminate taxpayer funding for the partisan broadcasting
outlets known as National Public Radio and the Public
Broadcasting Service, 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 ‘‘No Partisan Radio 4
and Partisan Broadcasting Services Act’’ or the ‘‘NPR 5
and PBS Act’’. 6
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SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON FEDERAL FUNDING FOR NA-1
TIONAL PUBLIC RADIO AND PUBLIC BROAD-2
CASTING SERVICE. 3
(a) I
NGENERAL.—After the date of the enactment 4
of this Act, no Federal funds may, directly or indirectly, 5
be made available to or used to support an organization 6
described in subsection (b), including through the payment 7
of dues to or the purchase of programming from such or-8
ganization by a public broadcast station using Federal 9
funds received by such station. 10
(b) O
RGANIZATIONSDESCRIBED.—The organizations 11
described in this subsection are— 12
(1) the organization known, as of the date of 13
the enactment of this Act, as ‘‘National Public 14
Radio’’; 15
(2) the organization known, as of the date of 16
the enactment of this Act, as the ‘‘Public Broad-17
casting Service’’; and 18
(3) any successor organization to an organiza-19
tion described in paragraph (1) or (2). 20
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