Bill Details
HR.82 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-01-03 - Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Introduced Date
2025-01-03
Policy Area
Arts, Culture, Religion
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This bill would stop the National Endowment for the Humanities from using any of its federal funds to carry out a specific part of the law that created it. In simple terms, it would block the agency from spending money on the activity or program described in section 7 of that 1965 law. The change would begin at the start of the first fiscal year after the bill becomes law.
- It applies to all funds made available to the National Endowment for the Humanities in any fiscal year.
- The bill says those funds may not be used to carry out section 7 of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965.
- The bill would take effect on the first day of the first fiscal year after it is enacted.
Official Summaries
Defund National Endowment for the Humanities Act of 2025
This bill prohibits the use of any funds that are made available to the National Endowment for the Humanities of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities to carry out the functions, programs, or activities of such endowment.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 82 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 82
To provide that none of the funds made available to the National
Endowment for the Humanities for any fiscal year may be used to carry
out section 7 of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities
Act of 1965.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 3, 2025
Mr. Biggs of Arizona introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on Education and Workforce
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A BILL
To provide that none of the funds made available to the National
Endowment for the Humanities for any fiscal year may be used to carry
out section 7 of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities
Act of 1965.
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 National Endowment for the
Humanities Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. LIMITATION.
None of the funds made available to the National Endowment for the
Humanities for any fiscal year may be used to carry out section 7 of
the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (20
U.S.C. 956).
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
This Act shall take effect on the 1st day of the 1st fiscal year
that begins after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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