SCONRES 8 · 119th Congress 2025–2027

A concurrent resolution supporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.

Introduced Mar 3, 2025 Originated Senate Sponsor John Barrasso R-WY

Fact sheet

Latest action · Mar 3, 2025 Referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text: CR S1463)

Progress

Where this resolution reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried. A concurrent resolution must be agreed to by both chambers, but it is not presented to the President and does not become law.

IntroducedMar 3, 2025
Agreed to in SenateNot reached
Agreed to in HouseNot reached

Summary

This concurrent resolution declares that Congress should not impose any new performance fee, tax, royalty, or other charge relating to the public performance of sound recordings on a local radio station for broadcasting sound recordings over the air, or on any business for the public performance of sound recordings broadcast on a local radio station.

Cosponsors 25

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 3, 2025 to Jul 30, 2025, with 19 there on the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
I-ME	Angus S. King Jr.	Original	Mar 3, 2025
R-WY	Cynthia M. Lummis	Original	Mar 3, 2025
R-NE	Deb Fischer	Original	Mar 3, 2025
R-WV	James C. Justice	Original	Mar 3, 2025
R-ID	James E. Risch	Original	Mar 3, 2025
D-NH	Jeanne Shaheen	Original	Mar 3, 2025
R-ND	John Hoeven	Original	Mar 3, 2025
R-ND	Kevin Cramer	Original	Mar 3, 2025
R-AK	Lisa Murkowski	Original	Mar 3, 2025
D-NH	Margaret Wood Hassan	Original	Mar 3, 2025
D-NM	Martin Heinrich	Original	Mar 3, 2025
R-ID	Mike Crapo	Original	Mar 3, 2025
R-NE	Pete Ricketts	Original	Mar 3, 2025
R-MS	Roger F. Wicker	Original	Mar 3, 2025
R-WV	Shelley Moore Capito	Original	Mar 3, 2025

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Actions 2

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Mar 3, 2025Introduced in Senate
Mar 3, 2025Referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text: CR S1463)

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
HCONRES 12	Supporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.	Related bill	Feb 13, 2025

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications.

Science, Technology, Communications

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Mar 3, 2025Introduced in Senate

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