NPR and PBS Act

No Partisan Radio and Partisan Broadcasting Services Act or the NPR and PBS Act

This bill prohibits federal funding of National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), including by prohibiting the use of federal funds received by a public broadcast station to pay dues to or purchase programming from NPR or PBS.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1632 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1632

  To eliminate taxpayer funding for the partisan broadcasting outlets 
known as National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 17, 2023

Mr. Jackson of Texas introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 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 Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``No Partisan Radio and Partisan 
Broadcasting Services Act'' or the ``NPR and PBS Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON FEDERAL FUNDING FOR NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO AND 
              PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE.

    (a) In General.--After the date of the enactment of this Act, no 
Federal funds may, directly or indirectly, be made available to or used 
to support an organization described in subsection (b), including 
through the payment of dues to or the purchase of programming from such 
organization by a public broadcast station using Federal funds received 
by such station.
    (b) Organizations Described.--The organizations described in this 
subsection are--
            (1) the organization known, as of the date of the enactment 
        of this Act, as ``National Public Radio'';
            (2) the organization known, as of the date of the enactment 
        of this Act, as the ``Public Broadcasting Service''; and
            (3) any successor organization to an organization described 
        in paragraph (1) or (2).
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