Defund National Endowment for the Humanities Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-68
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Biggs, Andy [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2019-01-03
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Executive agency funding and structure

Humanities programs funding

National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities
Latest action: action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-01-03
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Defund National Endowment for the Humanities Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill prohibits the use of any funds that are made available to the National Endowment for the Humanities of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities to carry out the functions, programs, and activities of such endowment. </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 68 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 3, 2019 Mr. Biggs introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor A BILL To provide that none of the funds made available to the National Endowment for the Humanities for any fiscal year may be used to carry out section 7 of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Defund National Endowment for the Humanities Act of 2019 . 2. Limitation None of the funds made available to the National Endowment for the Humanities for any fiscal year may be used to carry out section 7 of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 956 ). 3. Effective date This Act shall take effect on the 1st day of the 1st fiscal year that begins after the date of the enactment of this Act.