Bill Details
HR.1595 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-02-26 - Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Introduced Date
2025-02-26
Policy Area
Science, Technology, Communications
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This bill would stop federal money from going to National Public Radio, or NPR, after the bill becomes law. It would also block indirect support, such as when a public broadcast station uses federal funds to pay dues to NPR or buy programming from NPR. In short, the bill would cut off federal support for NPR and any group that replaces it.
- Federal funds could not be given to NPR in any direct or indirect way.
- Public broadcast stations that receive federal money could not use that money to pay NPR dues or buy NPR programming.
- The ban would also apply to any successor organization that takes NPR’s place.
- The bill makes related wording changes in federal communications law to remove references to NPR.
Official Summaries
Defund NPR Act
This bill prohibits federal funding of National Public Radio (NPR) or any successor organization. The prohibition includes the payment of dues to or the purchase of programming from NPR by a public broadcast station using federal funds.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1595 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1595
To prohibit Federal funding for National Public Radio, and for other
purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 26, 2025
Mrs. Cammack introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Energy and Commerce
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A BILL
To prohibit Federal funding for 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 ``Defund NPR Act''.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON FEDERAL FUNDING FOR NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO.
(a) In General.--Section 396 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47
U.S.C. 396) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``(m) Prohibition on Federal Funding for National Public Radio.--
``(1) In general.--After the date of enactment of the
Defund NPR Act, no Federal funds may, directly or indirectly,
be made available to or used to support an organization
described in paragraph (2), including through the payment of
dues to or the purchase of programming from the organization by
a public broadcast station using Federal funds received by the
station.
``(2) Organizations described.--The organizations described
in this paragraph are--
``(A) the organization known, as of the date of
enactment of the Defund NPR Act, as `National Public
Radio'; and
``(B) any successor organization to the
organization described in subparagraph (A).''.
(b) Technical and Conforming Amendments.--Title III of the
Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 301 et seq.) is amended--
(1) in section 396(k) (47 U.S.C. 396(k))--
(A) in paragraph (4), in the first sentence, by
striking ``or National Public Radio''; and
(B) in paragraph (9), by striking ``or National
Public Radio'' each place that term appears; and
(2) in section 398(b)(1) (47 U.S.C. 398(b)(1)), by striking
``and National Public Radio''.
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