Defund NPR Act

Defund NPR Act

This bill prohibits federal funds from being made available to or used to support National Public Radio (NPR) or its successor organization, including federal funds that a public broadcast station pays to NPR as dues or to purchase NPR programming. 

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8083 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8083

 To prohibit Federal funding for National Public Radio, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 19, 2024

Mr. Banks (for himself, Mr. Meuser, Mr. Duncan, Mrs. Cammack, Mr. Weber 
 of Texas, Mr. LaMalfa, and Mr. Babin) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit Federal funding for National Public Radio, 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 ``Defund NPR Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON FEDERAL FUNDING FOR NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO.

    (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''; and
            (2) any successor organization to the organization 
        described in paragraph (1).
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