Bill — Protect the First Amendment Act, 119TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION
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A House bill with the short title Protect the First Amendment Act, from the 119TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION, to prohibit the Federal Government from using funds to contract with or make awards to certain entities engaging in censorship. Section 2 states that no funds are authorized to be used by the Federal government to contract with or grant awards to a covered entity, or to a nonprofit organization or other entity that engages in covered behavior. It defines covered entity as NewsGuard Technologies, Inc. or Disinformation Index, Inc., Disinformation Index, Ltd., or Global Disinformation Index gUG. Covered behavior means operations, activities, or products whose function is to demonetize or rate the credibility of a domestic entity.
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- 407272 2025 06 20 Chairman Williams Introduces The Protect The First Att0
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- 2025-06-20
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- 407272 2025 06 20 Chairman Williams Introduces The Protect The First Att0
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“Bill — Protect the First Amendment Act, 119TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION.”
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(Original Signature of Member)
H. R. ll
119TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
To prohibit the Federal Government from using funds to contract with or
make awards to certain entities engaging in censorship, and for other
purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Ml. llllll introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on llllllllllllll
A BILL
To prohibit the Federal Government from using funds to
contract with or make awards to certain entities engag-
ing in censorship, and for other purposes.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protect the First
5 Amendment Act’’.
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1 SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON AUTHORIZATION OF FUNDING
2 FOR COVERED ENTITIES AND NONPROFIT
3 ORGANIZATIONS OR OTHER ENTITIES THAT
4 ENGAGE IN COVERED BEHAVIOR.
5 (a) IN GENERAL.—No funds are authorized to be
6 used by the Federal government, to contract with or grant
7 awards to—
8 (1) a covered entity; or
9 (2) a nonprofit organization or other entity that
10 engages in covered behavior.
11 (b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
12 (1) COVERED ENTITY.—The term ‘‘covered en-
13 tity’’ means—
14 (A) NewsGuard Technologies, Inc. (doing
15 business as ‘‘NewsGuard’’), or any successor
16 thereto; or
17 (B) Disinformation Index, Inc.,
18 Disinformation Index, Ltd., or Global
19 Disinformation Index gUG (collectively doing
20 business as ‘‘Global Disinformation Index’’), or
21 and successor thereto.
22 (2) COVERED BEHAVIOR.—The term ‘‘covered
23 behavior’’ means operations, activities, or products,
24 the function of which is to demonetize or rate the
25 credibility of a domestic entity (including news and
26 other information outlets) based on the lawful
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1 speech of such domestic entity by purporting to
2 evaluate whether such speech is misinformation,
3 disinformation, or malinformation.
4 (3) NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION.—The term
5 ‘‘nonprofit organization’’ means an organization that
6 is described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Rev-
7 enue Code of 1986 and that is exempt from taxation
8 under section 501(a) of such Code.
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