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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 746 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To prohibit Federal funding for National Public Radio, and for other |
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| 6 | 6 | | purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | FEBRUARY26, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. B |
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| 10 | 10 | | ANKSintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred |
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| 11 | 11 | | to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To prohibit Federal funding for National Public Radio, and |
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| 14 | 14 | | for other purposes. |
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| 15 | 15 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 18 | 18 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Defund NPR Act’’. 4 |
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| 19 | 19 | | SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON FEDERAL FUNDING FOR NA-5 |
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| 20 | 20 | | TIONAL PUBLIC RADIO. 6 |
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| 21 | 21 | | (a) I |
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| 22 | 22 | | NGENERAL.—Section 396 of the Communica-7 |
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| 23 | 23 | | tions Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 396) is amended by adding 8 |
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| 24 | 24 | | at the end the following: 9 |
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| 26 | 26 | | kjohnson on DSK7ZCZBW3PROD with $$_JOB 2 |
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| 27 | 27 | | •S 746 IS |
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| 28 | 28 | | ‘‘(m) PROHIBITION ONFEDERALFUNDING FORNA-1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | TIONALPUBLICRADIO.— 2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | ‘‘(1) I |
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| 31 | 31 | | N GENERAL.—After the date of enact-3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | ment of the Defund NPR Act, no Federal funds 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | may, directly or indirectly, be made available to or 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | used to support an organization described in para-6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | graph (2), including through the payment of dues to 7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | or the purchase of programming from the organiza-8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | tion by a public broadcast station using Federal 9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | funds received by the station. 10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | ‘‘(2) O |
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| 40 | 40 | | RGANIZATIONS DESCRIBED .—The organi-11 |
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| 41 | 41 | | zations described in this paragraph are— 12 |
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| 42 | 42 | | ‘‘(A) the organization known, as of the 13 |
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| 43 | 43 | | date of enactment of the Defund NPR Act, as 14 |
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| 44 | 44 | | ‘National Public Radio’; and 15 |
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| 45 | 45 | | ‘‘(B) any successor organization to the or-16 |
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| 46 | 46 | | ganization described in subparagraph (A).’’. 17 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (b) T |
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| 48 | 48 | | ECHNICAL ANDCONFORMINGAMENDMENTS.— 18 |
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| 49 | 49 | | Title III of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 19 |
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| 50 | 50 | | 301 et seq.) is amended— 20 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (1) in section 396(k) (47 U.S.C. 396(k))— 21 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (A) in paragraph (4), in the first sentence, 22 |
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| 53 | 53 | | by striking ‘‘or National Public Radio’’; and 23 |
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| 56 | 56 | | •S 746 IS |
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| 57 | 57 | | (B) in paragraph (9), by striking ‘‘or Na-1 |
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| 58 | 58 | | tional Public Radio’’ each place that term ap-2 |
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| 59 | 59 | | pears; and 3 |
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| 60 | 60 | | (2) in section 398(b)(1) (47 U.S.C. 398(b)(1)), 4 |
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| 61 | 61 | | by striking ‘‘and National Public Radio’’. 5 |
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