Sec. 1. Requirement to advertise with local media
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Each executive agency shall expend with local media— during the period that begins on the date of the enactment of this section and ends on December 31, 2020, 50 percent of the funds obligated by the agency for advertising activities and underwriting activities during such period; and during any period that begins on or after January 1, 2021, 25 percent of the funds obligated by the agency for advertising activities and underwriting activities during the applicable period. Of the funds required to be expended under paragraph (1), at least 45 percent of such funds shall be expended equally between newspapers, television stations, and radio stations that are local media.
Each executive agency shall— expend the funds required to be expended under subsection
(a)in a nonpartisan and nonideological manner; and ensure that the funds are expended with local media on a geographically equitable basis. Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this section, and each year thereafter, an executive agency shall submit a report to Congress (and any committee of jurisdiction) on, with respect to the prior year, funds expended by the agency for advertising activities and underwriting activities, including funds expended by the agency with local media in accordance with subsection (a). In this section: The term executive agency has the meaning given that term in section 102 of title 31, United States Code. The term public broadcast station has the meaning given the term under section 397 of the Communications Act of 1934 ( 47 U.S.C. 397 ). The term underwriting activity means a payment by an executive agency to a public broadcast station, or to support the production of programming to be broadcast on such a station, in exchange for or with the expectation of an announcement on the station receiving such payment or a station broadcasting such programming that acknowledges the financial support by such agency of such station or programming.
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