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105TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION S. 195

To abolish the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Council

on the Arts.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

JANUARY 21, 1997

Mr. HELMS introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred

to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources

A BILL

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 ‘‘National Endowment

5 for the Arts Termination Act of 1997’’.
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1 SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR

2 THE ARTS AND THE NATIONAL COUNCIL ON

3 THE ARTS.

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

5 the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 954,

6 954A, and 955) are repealed.

7 SEC. 3. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.

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

9 National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act

10 of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 951) is amended—

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

12 and the’’;

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

14 the arts’’;

15 (3) in paragraph (4) by striking ‘‘the arts and’’;

16 (4) in paragraph (5)—

17 (A) by striking ‘‘and the arts’’; and

18 (B) by striking ‘‘arts and’’;

19 (5) in paragraph (7)—

20 (A) by striking ‘‘practice of art and the’’;

21 (B) by striking ‘‘artist or’’; and

22 (C) by striking ‘‘creative’’;

23 (6) in paragraph (9) by striking ‘‘arts and’’;

24 (7) by striking paragraph (11); and

25 (8) in paragraph (12)—

26 (A) by striking ‘‘the Arts and’’; and
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1 (B) by redesignating such paragraph as

2 paragraph (11).

3 (b) DEFINITIONS.—Section 3 of the National Foun4 dation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (20

5 U.S.C. 952) is amended—

6 (1) by striking subsections (b), (c), and (f); and

7 (2) in subsection (d) by striking ‘‘, including

8 programs’’ and all that follows through ‘‘under9 standing of the arts,’’;

10 (A) in paragraph (1)—

11 (i) by striking ‘‘the National Council

12 on the Arts or’’; and

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

14 be,’’;

15 (B) in paragraph (2)—

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

17 inserting ‘‘section’’;

18 (ii) in subparagraph (A) by striking

19 ‘‘artistic or’’; and

20 (iii) in subparagraph (B)—

21 (I) by striking ‘‘the National

22 Council on the Arts and’’; and

23 (II) by striking ‘‘, as the case

24 may be,’’; and
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1 (C) by striking ‘‘(d) The’’ and inserting

2 ‘‘(b) The’’; and

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

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

5 (c) ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON

6 THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES.—Section 4(a) of the Na7 tional Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act

8 of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 953(a)) is amended—

9 (1) in subsection (a)—

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

11 it appears; and

12 (B) by striking ‘‘a National Endowment

13 for the Arts,’’;

14 (2) in subsection (b) by striking ‘‘and the arts’’;

15 and

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

17 ‘‘THE ARTS AND’’.

18 (d) FEDERAL COUNCIL ON THE ARTS AND THE HU19 MANITIES.—Section 9 of the National Foundation on the

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

21 is amended—

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

23 and’’;

24 (2) in subsection (b) by striking ‘‘the Chair25 person of the National Endowment for the Arts,’’;
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1 (3) in subsection (c)—

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

3 Chairperson of the National Endowment for the

4 Arts and’’;

5 (B) in paragraph (3)—

6 (i) by striking ‘‘the National Endow7 ment for the Arts,’’; and

8 (ii) by striking ‘‘Humanities,’’ and in9 serting ‘‘Humanities’’;

10 (C) in paragraph (6) by striking ‘‘arts

11 and’’; and

12 (D) in paragraph (7) by striking ‘‘the arts

13 and’’.

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

15 National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act

16 of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 959) is amended—

17 (1) in subsection (a)—

18 (A) in the matter preceding paragraph

19 (1)—

20 (i) by striking ‘‘in them’’;

21 (ii) by striking ‘‘the Chairperson of

22 the National Endowment for the Arts

23 and’’; and

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

25 their respective functions,’’;
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1 (B) by striking ‘‘of an Endowment’’ each

2 place it appears;

3 (C) in paragraph (2)—

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

5 the first place it appears and inserting

6 ‘‘the National Endowment for the Human7 ities’’;

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

9 and inserting ‘‘section’’; and

10 (iii) by striking ‘‘sections 5(c) and’’

11 and inserting ‘‘section’’; and

12 (D) in paragraph (3) by striking ‘‘define

13 their duties, and supervise and direct their ac14 tivities’’ and inserting ‘‘define the activities of

15 the employees, and supervise and direct the ac16 tivities of the employees’’;

17 (2) in subsection (b)—

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

19 (3); and

20 (B) in paragraph (4)—

21 (i) by striking ‘‘one of its Endow22 ments and received by the Chairperson of

23 an Endowment’’ and inserting ‘‘the Na24 tional Endowment for the Humanities and
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1 received by the Chairperson of that En2 dowment’’; and

3 (ii) by striking ‘‘(4)’’;

4 (3) by striking subsection (c);

5 (4) in subsection (d)—

6 (A) by striking ‘‘Chairperson of the Na7 tional Endowment for the Arts and the’’; and

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

9 appears;

10 (5) in subsection (e)—

11 (A) by striking ‘‘National Council on the

12 Arts and the’’; and

13 (B) by striking ‘‘, respectively, may each’’

14 and inserting ‘‘may’’; and

15 (6) in subsection (f)—

16 (A) in paragraph (1)—

17 (i) by striking ‘‘Chairperson of the

18 National Endowment for the Arts and

19 the’’; and

20 (ii) by striking ‘‘their respective En21 dowments under sections 5(c) and’’ and in22 serting ‘‘the Endowment under section’’;

23 (B) in paragraph (2)(A)—
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1 (i) by striking ‘‘either of the Endow2 ments’’ and inserting ‘‘the National En3 dowment for the Humanities’’; and

4 (ii) by striking ‘‘involved’’; and

5 (C) in paragraph (3)—

6 (i) by striking ‘‘that provided such fi7 nancial assistance’’ each place it appears;

8 and

9 (ii) in subparagraph (C) by striking

10 ‘‘the National Endowment for the Arts

11 or’’.

12 SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

13 Section 11 of the National Foundation on the Arts

14 and the Humanities Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 960) is

15 amended—

16 (1) in subsection (a)(1)—

17 (A) by striking subparagraph (A); and

18 (B) in subparagraph (B) by striking

19 ‘‘(B)’’;

20 (2) in subsection (a)(2)—

21 (A) by striking subparagraph (A); and

22 (B) in subparagraph (B)—

23 (i) by striking ‘‘(B)’’; and
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1 (ii) by redesignating clauses (i) and

2 (ii) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), respec3 tively;

4 (3) in subsection (a)(3)—

5 (A) by striking subparagraph (A);

6 (B) in subparagraph (B)—

7 (i) by striking ‘‘(B)’’; and

8 (ii) by redesignating clauses (i) and

9 (ii) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), respec10 tively; and

11 (C) by striking subparagraph (C);

12 (4) in subsection (a)(4)—

13 (A) by striking ‘‘Chairperson of the Na14 tional Endowment for the Arts and the’’;

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

16 and

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

18 5(l)(2), section 7(f),’’ and inserting ‘‘section

19 7(f)’’;

20 (5) in subsection (c)—

21 (A) by striking paragraph (1); and

22 (B) in paragraph (2) by striking ‘‘(2)’’;

23 (6) in subsection (d)—

24 (A) by striking paragraph (1); and
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1 (B) in paragraph (2) by striking ‘‘(2)’’;

2 and

3 (7) by striking subsection (f).

4 SEC. 5. SHORT TITLE.

5 Section 1 of the National Foundation on the Arts and

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

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

8 SEC. 6. TRANSITION PROVISIONS.

9 The Director of the Office of Management and Budg10 et shall provide for the termination of the affairs of the

11 National Endowment for the Arts and the National Coun12 cil on the Arts, including the appropriate transfer or other

13 disposition of personnel, assets, liabilities, grants, con14 tracts, property, records, and unexpended balances of ap15 propriations, authorizations, allocations, and other funds

16 held, used, arising from, available to, or to be made avail17 able in connection with implementing the authorities ter18 minated by the amendments made by this Act.

19 SEC. 7. EFFECTIVE DATES.

20 (a) GENERAL EFFECTIVE DATE.—Except as pro21 vided in subsection (b), this Act shall take effect on the

22 date of enactment of this Act.

23 (b) EFFECTIVE DATE OF AMENDMENTS.—Sections

24 2, 3, 4, and 5 shall take effect on the first day of the
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1 first fiscal year beginning after the date of enactment of

2 this Act.

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