The bill now passes and awaits gubernatorial action.
Aye: 4
Nay:0
Abstain: 1
Not voting: 0
RESPONSIBLE PUBLIC FUNDING ACT
1. No Regional, State, or local public funds in the Southern Region shall be expended to fund the operations, activities, or programs of or to purchase any publication produced by an organization identified herein. This does not include the neutral processing of permit applications for assemblies or protests conducted by third parties.
2. No Regional, State, or local law enforcement shall rely upon any publication by an organization identified herein in the course of an investigation without independent corroboration.
3. This act shall apply to the following organizations:
A. National Endowment for The Arts
B. National Endowment for The Humanities
C. National Endowment for Democracy
D. National Public Radio, Inc.
E. Broadcasting Board of Governors
F. Japanese-Atlasian Friendship Commission
G. Wikimedia Endowment
H. Anti-Defamation League
I. Brady Center To Prevent Handgun Violence
J. Violence Policy Center
K. Giffords Law Center To Prevent Gun Violence
L. Guttenmacher Institute
M. Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
N. National Council of La Raza
O. Black Lives Matter, Inc.
P. Tides Center and Foundation
Q. Center For American Progress
R. Media Matters for Atlasia
S. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
T. Earth Liberation Front
U. Code Pink
V. Climate Action Network
W. Lambda Legal
X. Mother's Against Drunk Driving
Y. Antifascist Action
Z. Proud boys
AA. Rainbow Push coalition
BB. Open Society Foundation
CC. New Atlasia
DD. Center for Public Integrity
EE. Human Rights Watch
FF. Priorities Atlasia Action
GG. Atlasian Bridge 21st Century
HH. Atlasia Votes
II. Millennium Promise
JJ. MoveOn
KK. Atlasia Coming Together
LL. Illuminati
MM. Bilderberg Group
NN. Council on Foreign Relations
OO. Trilateral Commission
PP. Skull and Bones Society
QQ. Davos Group
RR. World Economic Forum
SS. Color of Change
4.This act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after passage.