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104TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 209

To amend the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act

of 1965 to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Council on the Arts.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JANUARY 4, 1995

Mr. CRANE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee

on Economic and Educational Opportunities

A BILL

To amend the National Foundation on the Arts and the

Humanities Act of 1965 to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Council on the Arts.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Privatization of Art

5 Act’’.
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1 SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR

2 THE ARTS.

3 Sections 5, 5A, and 6 of the National Foundation on

4 the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 954,

5 954A, 955) are repealed.

6 SEC. 3. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.

7 (a) DECLARATION OF PURPOSE.—Section 2 of the

8 National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act

9 of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 951) is amended—

10 (1) in paragraphs (1) and (6) by striking ‘‘arts

11 and the’’,

12 (2) in paragraphs (2) and (5) by striking ‘‘and

13 the arts’’,

14 (3) in paragraphs (4), (5), and (9) by striking

15 ‘‘the arts and’’,

16 (4) in paragraph (7) by striking ‘‘the practice

17 of art and’’,

18 (5) by striking paragraph (11), and

19 (6) in paragraph (12) by striking ‘‘the Arts

20 and’’ and redesignating such paragraph as para21 graph (11).

22 (b) DEFINITIONS.—Section 3 of the National Foun23 dation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (20

24 U.S.C. 952) is amended—

25 (1) by striking subsections (b), (c), and (f), and

26 (2) in subsection (d)—
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1 (A) by striking ‘‘to foster American artistic

2 creativity, to commission works of art,’’,

3 (B) in paragraph (1)—

4 (i) by striking ‘‘the National Council

5 on the Arts or’’, and

6 (ii) by striking ‘‘, as the case may

7 be,’’,

8 (C) in paragraph (2)—

9 (i) by striking ‘‘sections 5(l) and’’ and

10 inserting ‘‘section’’,

11 (ii) in subparagraph (A) by striking

12 ‘‘artistic or’’, and

13 (iii) in subparagraph (B)—

14 (I) by striking ‘‘the National

15 Council on the Arts and’’, and

16 (II) by striking ‘‘, as the case

17 may be,’’, and

18 (D) by striking ‘‘(d)’’ and inserting ‘‘(b)’’,

19 and

20 (3) by redesignating subsections (e) and (g) as

21 subsections (c) and (d), respectively.

22 (c) ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON

23 THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES.—Section 4(a) of the Na24 tional Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act

25 of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 953(a)) is amended—
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1 (1) in subsection (a)—

2 (A) by striking ‘‘the Arts and’’ each place

3 it appears, and

4 (B) by striking ‘‘a National Endowment

5 for the Arts,’’,

6 (2) in subsection (b) by striking ‘‘and the arts’’,

7 and

8 (3) in the heading of such section by striking

9 ‘‘THE ARTS AND’’.

10 (d) FEDERAL COUNCIL ON THE ARTS AND THE HU11 MANITIES.—Section 9 of the National Foundation on the

12 Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 958)

13 is amended—

14 (1) in subsection (a) by striking ‘‘the Arts

15 and’’,

16 (2) in subsection (b) by striking ‘‘the Chair17 person of the National Endowment for the Arts,’’,

18 (3) in subsection (c)—

19 (A) in paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘the

20 Chairperson of the National Endowment for the

21 Arts and’’,

22 (B) in paragraph (3)—

23 (i) by striking ‘‘the National Endow24 ment for the Arts’’, and
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1 (ii) by striking ‘‘Humanities,’’ and in2 serting ‘‘Humanities’’, and

3 (C) in paragraphs (6) and (7) by striking

4 ‘‘the arts and’’.

5 (e) ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS.—Section 10 of the

6 National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act

7 of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 959) is amended—

8 (1) in subsection (a)—

9 (A) in the matter preceding paragraph

10 (1)—

11 (i) by striking ‘‘in them’’,

12 (ii) by striking ‘‘the Chairperson of

13 the National Endowment for the Arts

14 and’’, and

15 (iii) by striking ‘‘, in carrying out

16 their respective functions,’’,

17 (B) by striking ‘‘of an Endowment’’ each

18 place it appears,

19 (C) in paragraph (2)—

20 (i) by striking ‘‘of that Endowment’’

21 the first place it appears and inserting

22 ‘‘the National Endowment for the Human23 ities’’,

24 (ii) by striking ‘‘sections 6(f) and’’

25 and inserting ‘‘section’’, and
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1 (iii) by striking ‘‘sections 5(c) and’’

2 and inserting ‘‘section’’, and

3 (D) in paragraph (3) by striking ‘‘Chair4 person’s functions, define their duties, and su5 pervise their activities’’ and inserting ‘‘func6 tions, define the activities, and supervise the ac7 tivities of the Chairperson’’,

8 (2) in subsection (b)—

9 (A) by striking paragraphs (1), (2), and

10 (3), and

11 (B) in paragraph (4)—

12 (i) by striking ‘‘one of its Endow13 ments and received by the Chairperson of

14 an Endowment’’ and inserting ‘‘the Na15 tional Endowment for the Humanities and

16 received by the Chairperson of that En17 dowment’’, and

18 (ii) by striking ‘‘(4)’’,

19 (3) by striking subsection (c),

20 (4) in subsection (d)—

21 (A) by striking ‘‘Chairperson of the Na22 tional Endowment for the Arts and the’’, and

23 (B) by striking ‘‘each’’ the first place it

24 appears,

25 (5) in subsection (e)—
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1 (A) by striking ‘‘National Council on the

2 Arts and the’’, and

3 (B) by striking ‘‘, respectively,’’, and

4 (6) in subsection (f)—

5 (A) in paragraph (1)—

6 (i) by striking ‘‘Chairperson of the

7 National Endowment for the Arts and

8 the’’, and

9 (ii) by striking ‘‘sections 5(c) and’’

10 and inserting ‘‘section’’,

11 (B) in paragraph (2)(A)—

12 (i) by striking ‘‘either of the Endow13 ments’’ and inserting ‘‘National Endow14 ment for the Humanities’’, and

15 (ii) by striking ‘‘involved’’, and

16 (C) in paragraph (3)—

17 (i) by striking ‘‘that provided such fi18 nancial assistance’’ each place it appears,

19 and

20 (ii) in subparagraph (C) by striking

21 ‘‘the National Endowment for the Arts

22 or’’.
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1 SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

2 Section 11 of the National Foundation on the Arts

3 and the Humanities Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 960) is

4 amended—

5 (1) in subsection (a)(1)—

6 (A) by striking subparagraphs (A) and

7 (C), and

8 (B) in subparagraph (B) by striking

9 ‘‘(B)’’,

10 (2) in subsection (a)(2)—

11 (A) by striking subparagraph (A), and

12 (B) in subparagraph (B)—

13 (i) by striking ‘‘(B)’’, and

14 (ii) by redesignating clauses (i) and

15 (ii) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), respec16 tively,

17 (3) in subsection (a)(3)—

18 (A) by striking subparagraph (A),

19 (B) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as

20 subparagraph (A),

21 (C) by striking subparagraph (C), and

22 (D) in subparagraph (D)—

23 (i) by striking ‘‘(D)’’ and inserting

24 ‘‘(B)’’, and

25 (ii) by striking ‘‘and subparagraph

26 (B)’’,
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1 (4) in subsection (a)(4)—

2 (A) by striking ‘‘Chairperson of the Na3 tional Endowment for the Arts and the’’,

4 (B) by striking ‘‘, as the case may be,’’,

5 and

6 (C) by striking ‘‘section 5(e), section

7 5(l)(2), section 7(f),’’ and inserting ‘‘section

8 7(f)’’,

9 (5) in subsection (c)—

10 (A) by striking paragraph (1), and

11 (B) in paragraph (2) by striking ‘‘(2)’’,

12 (6) in subsection (d)—

13 (A) by striking paragraph (1), and

14 (B) in paragraph (2) by striking ‘‘(2)’’,

15 and

16 (7) by striking subsection (f).

17 SEC. 5. SHORT TITLE.

18 Section 1 of the National Foundation on the Arts and

19 the Humanities Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 951 note) is

20 amended by striking ‘‘the Arts and’’.

21 SEC. 6. TRANSITION PROVISIONS.

22 The Director of the Office of Management and Budg23 et shall provide for the termination of the affairs of the

24 National Endowment for the Arts and the National Coun25 cil on the Arts, including the appropriate transfer or other
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1 disposition of personnel, assets, liabilities, grants, con2 tracts, property, records, and unexpended balances of ap3 propriations, authorizations, allocations, and other funds

4 held, used, arising from, available to, or to be made avail5 able in connection with implementing the authorities ter6 minated by the amendments made by this Act.

7 SEC. 7. EFFECTIVE DATES.

8 (a) GENERAL EFFECTIVE DATE.—Except as pro9 vided in subsection (b), this Act shall take effect on the

10 date of the enactment of this Act.

11 (b) EFFECTIVE DATE OF AMENDMENTS.—Sections

12 2, 3, 4, and 5 shall take effect on the first day of the

13 first fiscal year beginning after the date of the enactment

14 of this Act.