NPR Act

Bill: 117-hr-8919
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Jackson, Ronny [R-TX-13]
Introduced: 2022-09-20
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Latest action: action_date: 2022-09-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-09-20
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>No Partisan Radio Act or the NPR Act</strong></p> <p>This bill prohibits federal funding of National Public Radio (NPR), including by prohibiting the use of federal funds received by a public broadcast station to pay dues to or purchase programming from NPR.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8919 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 20, 2022 Mr. Jackson (for himself and Mr. Duncan ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To eliminate taxpayer funding for the partisan radio outlet known as National Public Radio, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the No Partisan Radio Act or the NPR Act . 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 the 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) Organization described The organization described in this subsection is— (1) the organization known, as of the date of the enactment of this Act, as National Public Radio ; or (2) any successor organization to the organization described in paragraph (1).