[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2791 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2791

To prohibit public broadcasting stations receiving any funding through 
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting from making available any lists 
                       of their financial donors.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 5, 1999

    Mr. Stearns (for himself, Mr. Deal of Georgia, and Mr. Ehrlich) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit public broadcasting stations receiving any funding through 
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting from making available any lists 
                       of their financial donors.

    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 ``Public Broadcasting Donor Privacy 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF TRANSFER OF DONOR LISTS.

    Subpart E of Part IV of title III of Communications Act of 1934 (47 
U.S.C. 397 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
section:

``SEC. 399C. PROHIBITION AGAINST TRANSFER OF DONOR LISTS.

    ``No public broadcast station that, after the date of the enactment 
of the Public Broadcasting Donor Privacy Act, receives any funding, 
grant, advance, or other financial assistance from the Corporation may 
make available any list, in whole or in part, of the financial 
contributors to such station to any person or other entity, except at 
the direction of the Corporation or pursuant to any authority under 
Federal, State, or local law.''.
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