US Congress House Bill 6913 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-0)
Status: Introduced on May 15 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-05-15 - Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Reform, Small Business, Energy and Commerce, and Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Pending: House Ways And Means Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requires a federal executive agency to expend 50% of funds obligated by such agency for the advertising and underwriting activities of local media for the period beginning on the enactment of this bill, and ending on December 31, 2020. It also requires such agencies to expend 25% of such funds for the period beginning on or after January 1, 2021. At least 45% of agency advertising and underwriting activities funding must be expended equally between newspapers, television stations, and radio stations that are local media. The bill (1) expands the payroll protection program to newspaper, radio, and Internet publishing businesses with not more than 500 employees; (2) allows a payroll tax credit for 30% of first-year newsroom wages paid by a local media company; and (3) treats the publication (including electronic publication) of written news articles by an independent or community-based publication as a tax-exempt purpose. The bill expresses the sense of Congress that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting must provide programming to preschool, elementary, and secondary school children that promotes digital literacy during the period that such children cannot attend school due to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic.

To protect local media, and for other purposes.

Rep. Tim Ryan [D-OH]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]	Rep. Nanette Barragan [D-CA]
Rep. Thomas Suozzi [D-NY]	Rep. Vicente Gonzalez [D-TX]	Rep. Elaine Luria [D-VA]	Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]
Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]	Rep. Darren Soto [D-FL]	Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA]	Rep. Jamie Raskin [D-MD]
Rep. Charlie Crist [D-FL]	Rep. Dwight Evans [D-PA]	Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D-TX]
Rep. Jose Serrano [D-NY]	Rep. Eddie Johnson [D-TX]	Rep. Mike Levin [D-CA]	Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick [D-AZ]
Rep. Marcy Kaptur [D-OH]	Rep. Derek Kilmer [D-WA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-05-15	House	Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Reform, Small Business, Energy and Commerce, and Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2020-05-15	House	Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Reform, Small Business, Energy and Commerce, and Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2020-05-15	House	Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Reform, Small Business, Energy and Commerce, and Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2020-05-15	House	Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Reform, Small Business, Energy and Commerce, and Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2020-05-15	House	Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Reform, Small Business, Energy and Commerce, and Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2020-05-15	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6913/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr6913/BILLS-116hr6913ih.pdf