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No Partisan Radio Act

H.R. 8919 · 117th Congress · Sep 20, 2022 · Lineage

A BILL

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

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).