S.Amdt. 1738

SA 1738. Mr. SCHMITT submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill H.R. 2882, to reauthorize the Morris K. Udall and
Stewart L. Udall Trust Fund, and for other purposes; which was ordered
to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:
Sec. ___. (a) None of the funds made available by this Act
may be used to--
(1) label any constitutionally protected speech of a United
States citizen as disinformation or misinformation;
(2) coerce, directly or indirectly by partnering with a
nongovernmental entity that is acting at the request or
behest of a governmental entity, any provider or operator of
a covered platform to alter, remove, restrict, or suppress
constitutionally protected speech of a United States citizen
that is shared on the covered platform based on a
determination, by an employee acting under the official
authority of the Federal Government, that the content of the
speech is disinformation or misinformation; or
(3) create, or provide funding to a foreign government,
quasi-governmental organization, or nonprofit organization
for the research, development, or maintenance of, any
disinformation or misinformation list or ranking system
relating to news content, regardless of medium.
(b) For purposes of this section:
(1) The term ``constitutionally protected speech'' means
speech that is protected under the First Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States, including any type of
digital communication, including a post on a covered
platform, an e-mail, a text, and a direct message.
(2) The term ``covered platform'' means an interactive
computer service, as that term is defined in section 230 of
the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 230).
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