[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 315 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 315

To prohibit certain funding made available to the United States Agency 
 for Global Media relating to provision of an open platform for China, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 12, 2023

 Mr. Wilson of South Carolina introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit certain funding made available to the United States Agency 
 for Global Media relating to provision of an open platform for China, 
                        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.

    The Act may be cited as the ``No Taxpayer Funded Platform for 
Chinese Communists Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN FUNDING RELATING TO PROVISION OF AN OPEN 
              PLATFORM FOR CHINA.

    (a) Funding Prohibition.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, no funding made available to the United States Agency for Global 
Media (USAGM) may be used to provide an open platform for 
representatives of the People's Republic of China (PRC), members of the 
Chinese Communist Party (CCP), or any entity owned or controlled by the 
PRC or CCP.
    (b) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the USAGM shall submit to the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Foreign Relations of the Senate a report describing whether or not any 
of its broadcast entities, including its grantee organizations, has 
provided at any time during the five-year period immediately preceding 
such report an open platform for representatives of the PRC, members of 
the CCP, or any entity owned or controlled by the PRC or CCP. Such 
report shall be made available on a publicly available website by the 
Federal Government.
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