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HR 68 116th Congress House

Defund National Endowment for the Humanities Act of 2019

Official title: To provide that none of the funds made available to the National Endowment for the Humanities for any fiscal year may be used to carry out section 7 of the Nat… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To provide that none of the funds made available to the National Endowment for the Humanities for any fiscal year may be used to carry out section 7 of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965.

Introduced: January 3, 2019 Introduced by: Biggs, Andy Republican · Arizona See on congress.gov
Arts, Culture, Religion Executive agency funding and structureHumanities programs fundingNational Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities
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 Latest action January 3, 2019

Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Defund National Endowment for the Humanities Act of 2019

This bill prohibits the use of any funds that are made available to the National Endowment for the Humanities of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities to carry out the functions, programs, and activities of such endowment.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 68: Defund National Endowment for the Humanities Act of 2019. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-68/
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"H.R. 68: Defund National Endowment for the Humanities Act of 2019." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-68/.
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H.R. 68, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-68/.
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