SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR
THE ARTS.
Sections 5, 5A, and 6 of the National Foundation on
the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 954,
954A, 955) are repealed.
SEC. 3. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.
(a) DECLARATION OF PURPOSE.—Section 2 of the
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act
of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 951) is amended—
(1) in paragraphs (1) and (6) by striking ‘‘arts
and the’’,
(2) in paragraphs (2) and (5) by striking ‘‘and
the arts’’,
(3) in paragraphs (4), (5), and (9) by striking
‘‘the arts and’’,
(4) in paragraph (7) by striking ‘‘the practice
of art and’’,
(5) by striking paragraph (11), and
(6) in paragraph (12) by striking ‘‘the Arts
and’’ and redesignating such paragraph as para-
graph (11).
(b) DEFINITIONS.—Section 3 of the National Foun-
dation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (20
U.S.C. 952) is amended—
(1) by striking subsections (b), (c), and (f), and
(2) in subsection (d)—
(A) by striking ‘‘to foster American artistic
creativity, to commission works of art,’’,
(B) in paragraph (1)—
(i) by striking ‘‘the National Council
on the Arts or’’, and
(ii) by striking ‘‘, as the case may
be,’’,
(C) in paragraph (2)—
(i) by striking ‘‘sections 5(l) and’’ and
inserting ‘‘section’’,
(ii) in subparagraph (A) by striking
‘‘artistic or’’, and
(iii) in subparagraph (B)—
(I) by striking ‘‘the National
Council on the Arts and’’, and
(II) by striking ‘‘, as the case
may be,’’, and
(D) by striking ‘‘(d)’’ and inserting ‘‘(b)’’,
and
(3) by redesignating subsections (e) and (g) as
subsections (c) and (d), respectively.
(c) ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON
THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES.—Section 4(a) of the Na-
tional Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act
of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 953(a)) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)—
(A) by striking ‘‘the Arts and’’ each place
it appears, and
(B) by striking ‘‘a National Endowment
for the Arts,’’,
(2) in subsection (b) by striking ‘‘and the arts’’,
and
(3) in the heading of such section by striking
‘‘THE ARTS AND’’.
(d) FEDERAL COUNCIL ON THE ARTS AND THE HU-
MANITIES.—Section 9 of the National Foundation on the
Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 958)
is amended—
(1) in subsection (a) by striking ‘‘the Arts
and’’,
(2) in subsection (b) by striking ‘‘the Chair-
person of the National Endowment for the Arts,’’,
(3) in subsection (c)—
(A) in paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘the
Chairperson of the National Endowment for the
Arts and’’,
(B) in paragraph (3)—
(i) by striking ‘‘the National Endow-
ment for the Arts’’, and
(ii) by striking ‘‘Humanities,’’ and in-
serting ‘‘Humanities’’, and
(C) in paragraphs (6) and (7) by striking
‘‘the arts and’’.
(e) ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS.—Section 10 of the
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act
of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 959) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)—
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph
(1)—
(i) by striking ‘‘in them’’,
(ii) by striking ‘‘the Chairperson of
the National Endowment for the Arts
and’’, and
(iii) by striking ‘‘, in carrying out
their respective functions,’’,
(B) by striking ‘‘of an Endowment’’ each
place it appears,
(C) in paragraph (2)—
(i) by striking ‘‘of that Endowment’’
the first place it appears and inserting
‘‘the National Endowment for the Human-
ities’’,
(ii) by striking ‘‘sections 6(f) and’’
and inserting ‘‘section’’, and
(iii) by striking ‘‘sections 5(c) and’’
and inserting ‘‘section’’, and
(D) in paragraph (3) by striking ‘‘Chair-
person’s functions, define their duties, and su-
pervise their activities’’ and inserting ‘‘func-
tions, define the activities, and supervise the ac-
tivities of the Chairperson’’,
(2) in subsection (b)—
(A) by striking paragraphs (1), (2), and
(3), and
(B) in paragraph (4)—
(i) by striking ‘‘one of its Endow-
ments and received by the Chairperson of
an Endowment’’ and inserting ‘‘the Na-
tional Endowment for the Humanities and
received by the Chairperson of that En-
dowment’’, and
(ii) by striking ‘‘(4)’’,
(3) by striking subsection (c),
(4) in subsection (d)—
(A) by striking ‘‘Chairperson of the Na-
tional Endowment for the Arts and the’’, and
(B) by striking ‘‘each’’ the first place it
appears,
(5) in subsection (e)—
SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
Section 11 of the National Foundation on the Arts
and the Humanities Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 960) is
amended—
(1) in subsection (a)(1)—
(A) by striking subparagraphs (A) and
(C), and
(B) in subparagraph (B) by striking
‘‘(B)’’,
(2) in subsection (a)(2)—
(A) by striking subparagraph (A), and
(B) in subparagraph (B)—
(i) by striking ‘‘(B)’’, and
(ii) by redesignating clauses (i) and
(ii) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), respec-
tively,
(3) in subsection (a)(3)—
(A) by striking subparagraph (A),
(B) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as
subparagraph (A),
(C) by striking subparagraph (C), and
(D) in subparagraph (D)—
(i) by striking ‘‘(D)’’ and inserting
‘‘(B)’’, and
(ii) by striking ‘‘and subparagraph
(B)’’,
(4) in subsection (a)(4)—
(A) by striking ‘‘Chairperson of the Na-
tional Endowment for the Arts and the’’,
(B) by striking ‘‘, as the case may be,’’,
and
(C) by striking ‘‘section 5(e), section
5(l)(2), section 7(f),’’ and inserting ‘‘section
7(f)’’,
(5) in subsection (c)—
(A) by striking paragraph (1), and
(B) in paragraph (2) by striking ‘‘(2)’’,
(6) in subsection (d)—
(A) by striking paragraph (1), and
(B) in paragraph (2) by striking ‘‘(2)’’,
and
(7) by striking subsection (f).
SEC. 5. SHORT TITLE.
Section 1 of the National Foundation on the Arts and
the Humanities Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 951 note) is
amended by striking ‘‘the Arts and’’.
SEC. 6. TRANSITION PROVISIONS.
The Director of the Office of Management and Budg-
et shall provide for the termination of the affairs of the
National Endowment for the Arts and the National Coun-
cil on the Arts, including the appropriate transfer or other
disposition of personnel, assets, liabilities, grants, con-
tracts, property, records, and unexpended balances of ap-
propriations, authorizations, allocations, and other funds
held, used, arising from, available to, or to be made avail-
able in connection with implementing the authorities ter-
minated by the amendments made by this Act.
SEC. 7. EFFECTIVE DATES.
(a) GENERAL EFFECTIVE DATE.—Except as pro-
vided in subsection (b), this Act shall take effect on the
date of the enactment of this Act.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE OF AMENDMENTS.—Sections
2, 3, 4, and 5 shall take effect on the first day of the
first fiscal year beginning after the date of the enactment
of this Act.
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