Photo by Matt Cohen.

As promised, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton today introduced a bill that would strip all professional sports leagues including the NFL of their tax-exempt status that promote the Washington football team’s name.

The bill, a House companion to Sen. Maria Cantwell’s (D-Wash.), “would amend section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986” to prohibit leagues that promote the Washington team’s “derogatory” name from being tax exempt. In reality, just one league does that: The NFL.

“American taxpayers have been subsidizing a multibillion dollar league that promotes what has now been officially found to be a racial slur for profitable gain,” Norton said in her introduction of the bill. “Relief from taxes should no longer be given to a league that profits from the continued use of a racial slur, which degrades some Americans. As an organization that enjoys tax-exempt benefits, the NFL also has a duty to American taxpayers to ensure that its teams are not promoting or benefitting from a racial slur.”

The team is currently suing the Native Americans who complained about the name to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which canceled the team’s trademark earlier this year.