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House Bill 315
118th Congress(2023-2024)
No Taxpayer Funded Platform for Chinese Communists Act
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Introduced in House on Jan 12, 2023
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H. R. 315 (Introduced-in-House)


118th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 315


To prohibit certain funding made available to the United States Agency for Global Media relating to provision of an open platform for China, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 12, 2023

Mr. Wilson of South Carolina introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

A BILL

To prohibit certain funding made available to the United States Agency for Global Media relating to provision of an open platform for China, 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.

The Act may be cited as the “No Taxpayer Funded Platform for Chinese Communists Act”.

SEC. 2. Prohibition on certain funding relating to provision of an open platform for China.

(a) Funding prohibition.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funding made available to the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) may be used to provide an open platform for representatives of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), or any entity owned or controlled by the PRC or CCP.

(b) Report.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the USAGM shall submit to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a report describing whether or not any of its broadcast entities, including its grantee organizations, has provided at any time during the five-year period immediately preceding such report an open platform for representatives of the PRC, members of the CCP, or any entity owned or controlled by the PRC or CCP. Such report shall be made available on a publicly available website by the Federal Government.