Bill Details
S.746 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-02-26 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Introduced Date
2025-02-26
Policy Area
Science, Technology, Communications
Committees
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Sponsors
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This bill would stop federal money from going to National Public Radio, either directly or indirectly. It would also block public radio stations from using federal funds to pay dues to NPR or buy its programming. In simple terms, the bill aims to cut off NPR from support that comes from the federal government and make related changes in federal communications law.
- After the bill becomes law, no federal funds could be used to support NPR in any way.
- The ban would cover money passed through public broadcast stations, including dues payments and purchases of NPR programming made with federal funds.
- The rule would also apply to any future organization that replaces NPR.
- The bill makes technical changes to existing communications laws by removing 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]
[S. 746 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 746
To prohibit Federal funding for National Public Radio, and for other
purposes.
_______________________________________________________________________
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
February 26, 2025
Mr. Banks introduced the following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
_______________________________________________________________________
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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