Sec. 2. Corporation for public broadcasting
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Section 396 of the Communications Act of 1934 ( 47 U.S.C. 396 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: After the date of enactment of this subsection, 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. The Corporation shall cancel any direct and indirect funding to the maximum extent allowed by law and shall decline to provide future funding to such organizations, including by ensuring that licensees and permittees of public radio and television stations, as well as any other recipients of funds under this section, do not use Federal funds for such organizations.
The organizations described in this paragraph are— the organization known, as of the date of enactment of this subsection, as National Public Radio ; the organization known, as of the date of enactment of this subsection, as Public Broadcasting Service ; any successor organization to an organization described in subparagraph
(A)or (B); or any licensee or permittee of an organization described in subparagraph
(A)or (B). The Corporation shall revise the applicable Television Community Service Grants General Provisions and Eligibility Criteria and Radio Community Service Grants General Provisions and Eligibility Criteria to prohibit direct or indirect funding to the organizations described in paragraph
(2)and take all other necessary steps to minimize or eliminate its indirect funding of such organizations. . Title III of the Communications Act of 1934 ( 47 U.S.C. 301 et seq. ) is amended— in section 396(k) ( 47 U.S.C. 396(k) )— in paragraph (4), in the first sentence, by striking , unless the governing body and all that follows through reasons for closing the meeting and inserting a period; by striking paragraph (9); by redesignating paragraphs (10), (11), and
(12)as paragraphs (9), (10), and (11), respectively; and in paragraph (9), as so redesignated, in subparagraph (D), by striking paragraphs (4), (5), (8), and
(9)and inserting paragraphs (4), (5), and
(8); and in section 398(b)(1) ( 47 U.S.C. 398(b)(1) ), by striking by the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio (or any successor organization) and .
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