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104TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 579

To amend the National Foundation on the Humanities and the Humanities

Act of 1965 to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts and the

National Council on the Humanities.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JANUARY 19, 1995

Mr. HEFLEY (for himself, Mr. CRANE, and Mr. DOOLITTLE) introduced the

following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Economic and

Educational Opportunities

A BILL

To amend the National Foundation on the Humanities and

the Humanities Act of 1965 to abolish the National

Endowment for the Arts and the National Council on

the Humanities.

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 Hu5 manities Act’’.
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1 SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR

2 THE ARTS.

3 Sections 7 and 8 of the National Foundation on the

4 Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 956,

5 957) are repealed.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), (4), and (6) by striking

11 ‘‘and the Humanities’’,

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

13 humanities and’’,

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

15 humanities’’,

16 (4) in paragraph (7) by striking ‘‘and the study

17 of the humanities require’’ and inserting ‘‘requires’’,

18 and

19 (5) in paragraph (12) by striking ‘‘and the Hu20 manities’’.

21 (b) DEFINITIONS.—Section 3 of the National Foun22 dation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (20

23 U.S.C. 952) is amended—

24 (1) by striking subsection (a), and

25 (2) in subsection (d)—
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1 (A) in paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘or the

2 National Council on the Humanities, as the

3 case may be’’, and

4 (B) in paragraph (2)—

5 (i) by striking ‘‘sections 5(l) and

6 7(h)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 5(p)’’, and

7 (ii) by striking ‘‘and the National

8 Council on the Humanities, as the case

9 may be,’’.

10 (c) ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON

11 THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES.—Section 4(a) of the Na12 tional Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act

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

14 (1) in subsection (a)—

15 (A) by striking ‘‘and the Humanities’’ each

16 place it appears, and

17 (B) by striking ‘‘a National Endowment

18 for the Humanities,’’,

19 (2) in subsection (b) by striking ‘‘the human20 ities and’’, and

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

22 ‘‘AND THE HUMANITIES’’.

23 (d) FEDERAL COUNCIL ON THE ARTS AND THE HU24 MANITIES.—Section 9 of the National Foundation on the
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1 Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 958)

2 is amended—

3 (1) in subsection (a) by striking ‘‘and the Hu4 manities’’,

5 (2) in subsection (b) by striking ‘‘the Chair6 person of the National Endowment for the Human7 ities,’’,

8 (3) in subsection (c)—

9 (A) in paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘and the

10 Chairperson of the National Endowment for the

11 Humanities’’,

12 (B) in paragraph (3) by striking ‘‘, the

13 National Endowment for the Humanities,’’, and

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

15 ‘‘and humanities’’.

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

17 National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act

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

19 (1) in subsection (a)—

20 (A) in the matter preceding paragraph

21 (1)—

22 (i) by striking ‘‘in them’’,

23 (ii) by striking ‘‘and the Chairperson

24 of the National Endowment for the Hu25 manities’’, and
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1 (iii) by striking ‘‘, in carrying out

2 their respective functions, shall each’’ and

3 inserting ‘‘shall’’,

4 (B) by striking ‘‘of an Endowment’’,

5 (C) in paragraph (2)—

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

7 the first place it appears and inserting ‘‘on

8 the Arts’’,

9 (ii) by striking ‘‘sections 6(f) and

10 8(f)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 6(f)’’, and

11 (iii) by striking ‘‘sections 5(c) and

12 7(c)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 5(c)’’, and

13 (D) in paragraph (3) by striking ‘‘Chair14 person’s functions, define their duties, and su15 pervise their activities’’ and inserting ‘‘func16 tions, define the activities, and supervise the ac17 tivities of the Chairperson’’,

18 (2) in subsection (b)—

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

20 (3), and

21 (B) in paragraph (4)—

22 (i) by striking ‘‘one of its Endow23 ments and received by the Chairperson of

24 an Endowment’’ and inserting ‘‘the Na25 tional Endowment for the Arts and re-
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1 ceived by the Chairperson of that Endow2 ment’’, and

3 (ii) by striking ‘‘(4)’’,

4 (3) in subsection (d) by striking ‘‘and the

5 Chairperson of the National Endowment for the Hu6 manities shall each’’ and inserting ‘‘shall’’,

7 (4) in subsection (e) by striking ‘‘and the Na8 tional Council on the Arts, respectively, may each’’

9 and inserting ‘‘may’’,

10 (5) in subsection (f)—

11 (A) in paragraph (1)—

12 (i) by striking ‘‘and the Chairperson

13 of the National Endowment for the Arts’’,

14 and

15 (ii) by striking ‘‘sections 5(c) and

16 7(c)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 5(c)’’,

17 (B) in paragraph (2)(A)—

18 (i) by striking ‘‘either of the Endow19 ments’’ and inserting ‘‘National Endow20 ment for the Arts’’, and

21 (ii) by striking ‘‘involved’’, and

22 (C) in paragraph (3)—

23 (i) by striking ‘‘that provided such fi24 nancial assistance’’ each place it appears,

25 and
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1 (ii) in subparagraph (C) by striking

2 ‘‘or the National Endowment for the Hu3 manities’’.

4 SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

5 Section 11 of the National Foundation on the Arts

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

7 amended—

8 (1) in subsection (a)(1)—

9 (A) by striking subparagraph (B), and

10 (B) in subparagraph (A)—

11 (i) by striking ‘‘(A)’’,

12 (ii) by redesignating clauses (i), (ii),

13 and (iii) as subparagraphs (A), (B), and

14 (C), respectively, and

15 (iii) by striking ‘‘(I)’’ and ‘‘(II)’’ each

16 place they appear and inserting ‘‘(i)’’ and

17 ‘‘(ii)’’, respectively,

18 (2) in subsection (a)(2)—

19 (A) by striking subparagraph (B), and

20 (B) in subparagraph (A)—

21 (i) by striking ‘‘(A)’’, and

22 (ii) by redesignating clauses (i) and

23 (ii) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), respec24 tively, and

25 (3) in subsection (a)(3)—
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1 (A) by striking subparagraph (B), and

2 (B) in subparagraph (C)—

3 (i) by striking ‘‘and subparagraph

4 (B)’’, and

5 (ii) by redesignating such subpara6 graph as subparagraph (B),

7 (4) in subsection (a)(4)—

8 (A) by striking ‘‘and the Chairperson of

9 the National Endowment for the Humanities,

10 as the case may be,’’, and

11 (B) by striking ‘‘section 5(l)(2), section

12 7(f), and section 7(h)(2)’’ and inserting ‘‘and

13 section 5(p)(2)’’,

14 (5) in subsection (c)—

15 (A) in paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘(1)’’,

16 and

17 (B) by striking paragraph (2),

18 (6) in subsection (d)—

19 (A) by striking paragraph (2), and

20 (B) in paragraph (1)—

21 (i) by striking ‘‘(1)’’,

22 (ii) by redesignating subparagraphs

23 (A), (B), and (C) as paragraphs (1), (2),

24 and (3), respectively, and
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1 (7) in subsection (e) by striking ‘‘and human2 ities’’.

3 SEC. 5. SHORT TITLE.

4 Section 1 of the National Foundation on the Arts and

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

6 amended by striking ‘‘and the Humanities’’.

7 SEC. 6. TRANSITION PROVISIONS.

8 The Director of the Office of Management and Budg9 et shall provide for the termination of the affairs of the

10 National Endowment for the Humanities and the National

11 Council on the Humanities, including the appropriate

12 transfer or other disposition of personnel, assets, liabil13 ities, grants, contracts, property, records, and unexpended

14 balances of appropriations, authorizations, allocations,

15 and other funds held, used, arising from, available to, or

16 to be made available in connection with implementing the

17 authorities terminated by the amendments made by this

18 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 the 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 the enactment

2 of this Act.

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