[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8286 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8286

 To prohibit Federal funding for National Public Radio and to provide 
  for the transfer of certain Federal funds that would have been made 
 available to National Public Radio to reduce the public debt, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 7, 2024

  Ms. Tenney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit Federal funding for National Public Radio and to provide 
  for the transfer of certain Federal funds that would have been made 
 available to National Public Radio to reduce the public debt, 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 of 2024''.

SEC. 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 an organization described 
        in paragraph (1).
    (c) Transfer of Certain Funds To Reduce the Public Debt.--For 
fiscal years 2024, 2025, and 2026, the Corporation for Public 
Broadcasting shall transfer to the account established by section 
3113(d) of title 31, United States Code, an amount equal to the amount 
allocated under section 396(k)(3)(A)(iii) of the Communications Act of 
1934 (47 U.S.C. 396(k)(3)(A)(iii)) that would have been made available 
to an organization described in subsection (b) but for the prohibition 
in subsection (a).
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