119-s518

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 518 Introduced in Senate

    (IS) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 518

 To prohibit Federal funding for the Public Broadcasting Service and 
 National Public Radio and to provide for the transfer of certain 
 Federal funds that would have been made available to those 
 organizations to reduce the public debt, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 February 11, 2025

 Mr. Lee introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
 referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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 A BILL

 To prohibit Federal funding for the Public Broadcasting Service and 
 National Public Radio and to provide for the transfer of certain 
 Federal funds that would have been made available to those 
 organizations to reduce the public debt, 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 Government-Sponsored 
Propaganda Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON FEDERAL FUNDING FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE 
 AND NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO.

    (a) In General.--After the date of enactment of this Act, no 
Federal funds may, directly or indirectly, be made available to or used 
to support an organization described in subsection

    (b) , 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.

    (b) Organizations Described.--The organizations described in this 
subsection are--

    (1) the organization known, as of the date of enactment of 
 this Act, as the ``Public Broadcasting Service'';

    (2) the organization known, as of the date of enactment of 
 this Act, as ``National Public Radio''; and

    (3) any successor organization to an organization described 
 in paragraph

    (1) or

    (2) .
            (c) Transfer of Certain Funds To Reduce the Public Debt.--For 
fiscal years 2025, 2026, and 2027, the Corporation for Public 
Broadcasting shall transfer to the account established by 

section 3113
            (d) of title 31, United States Code, an amount equal to the sum of 
the amounts allocated under clauses
            (ii) and
            (iii) of 

section 396

    (k)

    (3)
        (A) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 396

    (k)

    (3)
        (A) ) 
that would have been made available to an organization described in 
subsection

    (b) but for the prohibition in subsection

    (a) .
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