Defund NPR Act

Bill: 118-hr-8083
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Banks, Jim [R-IN-3]
Introduced: 2024-04-19
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Latest action: action_date: 2024-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.

Summaries:
action_date: 2024-04-19
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Defund NPR Act </strong></p><p>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.&nbsp;</p>

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8083 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 A BILL To prohibit Federal funding for National Public Radio, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Defund 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 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).