119-hr4067

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4067 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 4067

To prohibit the Federal Government from using funds to contract with or 
 make awards to certain entities engaging in censorship, and for other 
 purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 June 20, 2025

 Mr. Williams of Texas (for himself and Mr. McCormick) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and 
 Government Reform

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 A BILL

To prohibit the Federal Government from using funds to contract with or 
 make awards to certain entities engaging in censorship, 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 ``Protect the First Amendment Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON AUTHORIZATION OF FUNDING FOR COVERED ENTITIES 
 AND NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS OR OTHER ENTITIES THAT ENGAGE 
 IN COVERED BEHAVIOR.

    (a) In General.--No funds are authorized to be used by the Federal 
Government, to contract with or grant awards to--

    (1) a covered entity; or

    (2) a nonprofit organization or other entity that engages 
 in covered behavior.

    (b) 

=== Definitions. ===
-In this section:

    (1) Covered entity.--The term ``covered entity'' means--
        (A) NewsGuard Technologies, Inc. (doing business as 
 ``NewsGuard''), or any successor thereto; or
        (B) Disinformation Index, Inc., Disinformation 
 Index, Ltd., or Global Disinformation Index gUG 
 (collectively doing business as ``Global Disinformation 
 Index''), or and successor thereto.

    (2) Covered behavior.--The term ``covered behavior'' means 
 operations, activities, or products, the function of which is 
 to demonetize or rate the credibility of a domestic entity 
 (including news and other information outlets) based on the 
 lawful speech of such domestic entity by purporting to evaluate 
 whether such speech is misinformation, disinformation, or 
 malinformation.

    (3) Nonprofit organization.--The term ``nonprofit 
 organization'' means an organization that is described in 
 

section 501
            (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and that 
 is exempt from taxation under 

section 501

    (a) of such Code.
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