[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3488 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3488

To amend the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 
 1965 to limit the distribution of funds of the National Endowment for 
                               the Arts.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 10, 1993

 Mr. Bachus of Alabama (for himself, Mr. Hunter, Mr. Dornan, Mr. Goss, 
   Mr. Laughlin, Mr. Burton of Indiana, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Stump, Mr. 
   Doolittle, Mr. Hutchinson, Mr. Hansen, Mr. Bateman, Mr. Fields of 
Texas, Mr. King, Mrs. Fowler, Mr. Taylor of North Carolina, Mr. Ewing, 
   and Mr. Smith of Texas) introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 
 1965 to limit the distribution of funds of the National Endowment for 
                               the Arts.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 5 of the 
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 954) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(r) None of the funds received by the Endowment to carry out 
subsection (c), (g), or (p) may be used by the Chairperson, or by a 
State agency or other recipient of such funds under such subsection, to 
provide financial assistance for a project, production, workshop, or 
program that depicts, or describes in a patently offensive way--
            ``(1) sexual or excretory activities or organs; or
            ``(2) religion or religious symbols.''.

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