US Congress House Bill 69 (Prior Session Legislation)

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February 1 2011 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Prohibits federal funding to organizations incorporated for specified purposes related to: (1) broadcasting, transmitting, and programming over noncommercial educational radio broadcast stations, networks, and systems; (2) cooperating with foreign broadcasting systems and networks in international radio programming and broadcasting; (3) assisting and supporting such noncommercial educational radio broadcasting pursuant to the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967; or (4) acquiring radio programs from such organizations. Requires the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, for FY2011-FY2012, to transfer to a designated Treasury account for use to reduce the public debt an amount equal to the amount allocated from the Public Broadcasting Fund for specified licensees and permittees of public radio stations, public radio programming, and for acquiring or producing certain national programming.

To prohibit Federal funding of certain public radio programming, to provide for the transfer of certain public radio funds to reduce the public debt, and for other purposes.

Rep Lamborn, Doug	Rep Akin, W. Todd	Rep Bartlett, Roscoe G.	Rep Barton, Joe
Rep Bishop, Rob	Rep Blackburn, Marsha	Rep Broun, Paul C.	Rep Burton, Dan
Rep Chaffetz, Jason	Rep Coffman, Mike	Rep Duncan, Jeff	Rep Flores, Bill
Rep Foxx, Virginia	Rep Franks, Trent	Rep Garrett, Scott	Rep Gibbs, Bob
Rep Grimm, Michael G.	Rep Hayworth, Nan A. S.	Rep Herger, Wally	Rep Huelskamp, Tim
Rep King, Steve	Rep Kline, John	Rep Manzullo, Donald A.	Rep Marchant, Kenny
Rep McClintock, Tom	Rep Miller, Candice S.	Rep Pitts, Joseph R.	Rep Poe, Ted
Rep Ribble, Reid J.	Rep Ross, Dennis	Rep Schmidt, Jean

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-02-01	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
2011-01-05	House	Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

HB68 (Related) 2011-02-01 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
SB492 (Related) 2011-03-04 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
HB1076 (Related) 2011-03-17 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HN00069:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr69ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr69ih.pdf