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Protect the First Amendment Act
To prohibit the Federal Government from using funds to contract with or make awards to certain entities engaging in censorship, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill would prohibit the federal government from using funds to contract with or provide grants to NewsGuard Technologies and Global Disinformation Index, or to nonprofit organizations that rate the credibility of domestic news outlets and information sources based on whether their speech constitutes misinformation, disinformation, or malinformation. The bill defines "covered behavior" as operations or products that demonetize or assess credibility based on the lawful speech of domestic entities. The provision would apply to any successor organizations of the named entities.
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Sponsor (1)
1 cosponsor
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Roger Williams’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- NULL $31,350
- DOUBLE EAGLE $16,000
- PIERSON & PATTERSON $13,200
- LENDERS & MEMBERS SERVICE GROUP $13,200
- LUTHER KING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT $11,600
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Actions (2)
- Jun 20, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. · house
- Jun 20, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 20, 2025
Mr. Williams of Texas (for himself and Mr. McCormick) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
A BILL
To prohibit the Federal Government from using funds to contract with or make awards to certain entities engaging in censorship, 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.
This Act may be cited as the “Protect the First Amendment Act”.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON AUTHORIZATION OF FUNDING FOR COVERED ENTITIES AND NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS OR OTHER ENTITIES THAT ENGAGE IN COVERED BEHAVIOR.
(a) In General.—No funds are authorized to be used by the Federal Government, to contract with or grant awards to—
(1) a covered entity; or
(2) a nonprofit organization or other entity that engages in covered behavior.
(b) Definitions.—In this section:
(1) Covered entity.—The term “covered entity” means—
(A) NewsGuard Technologies, Inc. (doing business as “NewsGuard”), or any successor thereto; or
(B) Disinformation Index, Inc., Disinformation Index, Ltd., or Global Disinformation Index gUG (collectively doing business as “Global Disinformation Index”), or and successor thereto.
(2) Covered behavior.—The term “covered behavior” means operations, activities, or products, the function of which is to demonetize or rate the credibility of a domestic entity (including news and other information outlets) based on the lawful speech of such domestic entity by purporting to evaluate whether such speech is misinformation, disinformation, or malinformation.
(3) Nonprofit organization.—The term “nonprofit organization” means an organization that is described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and that is exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of such Code. <all>
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