1.Prohibition on Federal
funding of certain public radio programming
(a)No Federal funds may
be made available—
(1)to an organization that is incorporated as
of the date of the enactment of this Act for each of the purposes described in
subsection (c), or to any successor organization; or
(2)for the acquisition of radio programs
(including programs to be distributed or disseminated over the Internet) from
an organization described in paragraph (1).
(b)Subsection (a)(2) shall not be construed to prohibit
the making available of Federal funds to any entity, including an entity that
engages in the acquisition described in such subsection, for purposes other
than such acquisition.
(c)The purposes described in this subsection are the
following:
(1)To propose, plan and develop, to acquire,
purchase and lease, to prepare, produce and record, and to distribute, license
and otherwise make available radio programs to be broadcast over noncommercial
educational radio broadcast stations, networks and systems.
(2)To engage in research study activities with
respect to noncommercial educational radio programming and broadcasting.
(3)To lease, purchase, acquire and own, to
order, have, use and contract for, and to otherwise obtain, arrange for and
provide technical equipment and facilities for the production, recording and
distribution of radio programs for broadcast over noncommercial educational
radio stations, networks and systems.
(4)To establish and maintain one or more
service or services for the production, duplication, promotion and circulation
of radio programs on tape, cassettes, records or any other means or mechanism
suitable for noncommercial educational transmission and broadcast
thereof.
(5)To cooperate and participate with foreign
broadcasting systems and networks in all aspects of international radio
programming and broadcasting.
(6)To develop, prepare and publish
information, data, reports and other materials in support of or relating to
noncommercial educational radio programming and broadcasting.
(7)To otherwise forward and advance the
development, production, distribution and use of noncommercial educational
radio programs, materials and services, and to assist and support noncommercial
educational radio broadcasting pursuant to the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967,
as it may from time to time be amended.
(d)In this section, the term Federal
funds means, with respect to receipt by a non-Federal entity from the
Federal Government, the following:
(1)Grants.
(2)Loans.
(3)Property.
(4)Cooperative
agreements.
(5)Direct
appropriations.
2.Transfer of
certain funds to reduce the public debtFor fiscal years 2011 and 2012, 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 clauses (ii) and (iii) of section 396(k)(3)(A) of the
Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 396(k)(3)(A)) that would have been made
available to an organization described in subsection (a)(1) of section 1 or for
the purpose described in subsection (a)(2) of such section, but for the
enactment of such section.
3.It is the sense of
Congress that—
(1)the Congressional Budget Office, the
Government Accountability Office, and the Chairman of the Board of Governors of
the Federal Reserve System have found that unsustainable fiscal trends, driven
by Federal spending, represent a serious threat to the United States economy
and the prosperity of the American people;
(2)Government
programs and services that can be funded privately, or that are otherwise
available within civil society, should not depend on taxpayer funding;
(3)nondefense
discretionary Federal spending should be significantly decreased, and savings
should be used for the purpose of paying down the public debt; and
(4)beginning in fiscal year 2011, the annual
budget deficit should be reduced by not making available Federal funds as
prohibited by section 1.