[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8919 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8919

 To eliminate taxpayer funding for the partisan radio outlet known as 
             National Public Radio, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 20, 2022

Mr. Jackson (for himself and Mr. Duncan) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To eliminate taxpayer funding for the partisan radio outlet known as 
             National Public Radio, 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 ``No Partisan Radio Act'' or the ``NPR 
Act''.

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 the 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) Organization Described.--The organization described in this 
subsection is--
            (1) the organization known, as of the date of the enactment 
        of this Act, as ``National Public Radio''; or
            (2) any successor organization to the organization 
        described in paragraph (1).
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