Defund NPR Act

Defund NPR Act

This bill prohibits federal funding of National Public Radio (NPR) or any successor organization. The prohibition includes the payment of dues to or the purchase of programming from NPR by a public broadcast station using federal funds.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 746 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 746

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 26, 2025

   Mr. Banks introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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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.--Section 396 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 
U.S.C. 396) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(m) Prohibition on Federal Funding for National Public Radio.--
            ``(1) In general.--After the date of enactment of the 
        Defund NPR Act, no Federal funds may, directly or indirectly, 
        be made available to or used to support an organization 
        described in paragraph (2), including through the payment of 
        dues to or the purchase of programming from the organization by 
        a public broadcast station using Federal funds received by the 
        station.
            ``(2) Organizations described.--The organizations described 
        in this paragraph are--
                    ``(A) the organization known, as of the date of 
                enactment of the Defund NPR Act, as `National Public 
                Radio'; and
                    ``(B) any successor organization to the 
                organization described in subparagraph (A).''.
    (b) Technical and Conforming Amendments.--Title III of the 
Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 301 et seq.) is amended--
            (1) in section 396(k) (47 U.S.C. 396(k))--
                    (A) in paragraph (4), in the first sentence, by 
                striking ``or National Public Radio''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (9), by striking ``or National 
                Public Radio'' each place that term appears; and
            (2) in section 398(b)(1) (47 U.S.C. 398(b)(1)), by striking 
        ``and National Public Radio''.
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