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<dc:title>119 HR 5117 IH: Stopping Propaganda Indoctrination Nationally Act</dc:title>
<dc:publisher>U.S. House of Representatives</dc:publisher>
<dc:date>2025-09-03</dc:date>
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<distribution-code display="yes">I</distribution-code><congress display="yes">119th CONGRESS</congress><session display="yes">1st Session</session><legis-num display="yes">H. R. 5117</legis-num><current-chamber>IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES</current-chamber><action display="yes"><action-date date="20250903">September 3, 2025</action-date><action-desc><sponsor name-id="M001216">Mr. Mills</sponsor> introduced the following bill; which was referred to the <committee-name committee-id="HFA00">Committee on Foreign Affairs</committee-name></action-desc></action><legis-type>A BILL</legis-type><official-title display="yes">To amend the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to prohibit the dissemination of certain information in the United States.</official-title></form><legis-body id="HF32EF0F4E0084801AC03667A84A4D89F" style="OLC"> 
<section id="H66ADE434BC8D47529BD9C215BC8248FA" section-type="section-one" commented="no"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Stopping Propaganda Indoctrination Nationally Act</short-title></quote> or the <quote><short-title>SPIN Act</short-title></quote>.</text></section> <section id="H241EC08525BB45E59D4CE7D32199300C"><enum>2.</enum><header>Dissemination of information in the United States</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 501(b) of the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/1461">22 U.S.C. 1461(a)</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text> 
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<subsection id="H6DB9813F6D934865B9A90EA36954AB13"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any such information shall not be disseminated within the United States, its territories, or possessions, but, on request, shall be available in the English language at the Department of State, at all reasonable times following its release as information abroad, for examination only by representatives of United States press associations, newspapers, magazines, radio systems, and stations, and by research students and scholars, and, on request, shall be made available for examination only to Members of Congress.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section> </legis-body></bill>

