Title: John F. Kennedy Center Reauthorization Act of 2019
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion

Summary:
John F. Kennedy Center Reauthorization Act of 2019
This bill reauthorizes funding for FY2020-FY2024 for maintenance, repair, and security and capital projects for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
The bill directs that a plaque be placed within the Kennedy Center that contains an inscription to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the signing of the National Cultural Center Act by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Kennedy Center may solicit private contributions for the design, procurement, and installation of the plaque.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2197 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2197

To amend the John F. Kennedy Center Act to authorize appropriations for 
   the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 10, 2019

 Mr. DeFazio (for himself, Ms. Titus, Mr. Graves of Missouri, and Mr. 
   Meadows) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the John F. Kennedy Center Act to authorize appropriations for 
   the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and for other 
                               purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``John F. Kennedy Center 
Reauthorization Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    Section 13 of the John F. Kennedy Center Act (20 U.S.C. 76r) is 
amended by striking subsections (a) and (b) and inserting the 
following:
    ``(a) Maintenance, Repair, and Security.--There are authorized to 
be appropriated to the Board to carry out section 4(a)(1)(H)--
            ``(1) $26,000,000 for fiscal year 2020;
            ``(2) $27,000,000 for fiscal year 2021;
            ``(3) $28,000,000 for fiscal year 2022;
            ``(4) $29,000,000 for fiscal year 2023; and
            ``(5) $30,000,000 for fiscal year 2024.
    ``(b) Capital Projects.--There are authorized to be appropriated to 
the Board to carry out subparagraphs (F) and (G) of section 4(a)(1)--
            ``(1) $17,000,000 for fiscal year 2020;
            ``(2) $18,000,000 for fiscal year 2021;
            ``(3) $19,000,000 for fiscal year 2022;
            ``(4) $20,000,000 for fiscal year 2023; and
            ``(5) $21,000,000 for fiscal year 2024.''.

SEC. 3. COMMEMORATION OF THE JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING 
              ARTS.

    (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that the John 
F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (referred to in this Act as 
the ``Center'')--
            (1) recognize the 50th anniversary of the opening of the 
        Center;
            (2) acknowledge and commemorate the mission of the Center 
        as a national center for the performing arts and a national 
        memorial to President John F. Kennedy; and
            (3) recognize the 60th anniversary of the signing of the 
        National Cultural Center Act (now known as the ``John F. 
        Kennedy Center Act'') (20 U.S.C. 76h et seq.), signed into law 
        by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on September 2, 1958.
    (b) Authorization for Plaque.--
            (1) In general.--The Center shall place within the Center a 
        plaque containing an inscription to commemorate the 60th 
        anniversary of the signing of the National Cultural Center Act 
        (20 U.S.C. 76h et seq.) by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
            (2) Specifications.--The plaque shall be--
                    (A)(i) not less than 6 square feet in size; and
                    (ii) not more than 18 square feet in size;
                    (B) of any shape that the Trustees of the Center 
                determine to be appropriate; and
                    (C) placed at a location within the Center 
                approximate to the Eisenhower Theater that the Trustees 
                of the Center determine to be appropriate.
            (3) Funding.--
                    (A) In general.--No Federal funds may be used to 
                design, procure, or install the plaque.
                    (B) Exception.--Subparagraph (A) shall not affect 
                the payment of salaries, expenses, and benefits 
                otherwise authorized by law for members and employees 
                of the Center who participate in carrying out this 
                subsection.
            (4) Private fundraising authorized.--
                    (A) In general.--The Center may solicit and accept 
                private contributions for the design, procurement, and 
                installation of the plaque.
                    (B) Accounting.--The Center may--
                            (i) establish an account into which any 
                        contributions received pursuant to subparagraph 
                        (A) shall be deposited; and
                            (ii) maintain documentation of any 
                        contributions received pursuant to subparagraph 
                        (A).
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