94TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 7216 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MAY 21, 1975 Mr. BRADEMAS (for himself and Mr. BELL) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor A BILL To amend and extend the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965, to provide for the improvement of museum services, and to provide indemnities for exhibitions of artistic and humanistic endeavors, and for other purposes. 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa 2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 That this Act may be cited as the "Arts, Humanities, and 4 Cultural Affairs Act of 1975". 6 TITLE I-ARTS AND HUMANITIES GRANTS TO THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE 7 SEC. 101. (a) Section 5 of the National Foundation on 8 the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 is amended by 9 adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: I-O 2 1 "(1) The Chairman is authorized to make grants to 2 the American Film Institute, a nonprofit corporation in 3 corporated under the laws of the District of Columbia, for 4 the purposes described in subsection (c).". 5 (b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall be 6 effective with respect to fiscal year 1976 and succeeding 7 fiscal years. 8 9 STATE HUMANITIES COUNCILS SEC. 102. (a) (1) Section 7 of the National Founda10 tion on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 is amended 11 by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: 12 "(f) (1) The Chairman, with the advice of the National 13 Council on the Humanities, is authorized to establish and carry out a program of grants-in-aid to assist the several States in supporting not more than 50 per centum of the 14 15 cost of existing activities which meet the standards enu merated in subsection (c), and in developing programs in the humanities in such a manner as will furnish adequate programs in the humanities in each of the several States. "(2) In order to receive assistance under this subsec tion in any fiscal year, a State shall submit an application for such grants at such time as shall be specified by the Chairman and accompany such applications with a plan which the Chairman finds "(A) designates or provides for the establishment 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 of a State agency (hereafter in this section referred to as the State agency) as the sole agency for the adminis tration of the State plan; "(B) provides that funds paid to the State under this subsection will be expended solely on programs ap proved by the State agency which carry out one or more of the objectives of subsection (q); and "(C) provides that the State agency will make such reports, in such form, and containing such information, as the Chairman may, from time to time, require. "(3) Of the sums available to carry out this subsection 12 for any fiscal year, each State which has a plan approved by the Chairman shall be allotted at least $100,000. If the 13 sums appropriated are insufficient to make the allotments under the preceding sentence in full, such sums shall be allotted among such States in equal amounts. In any case where the sums available to carry out this subsection for any fiscal year are in excess of the amount required to make the allotments under the first sentence of this paragraph "(A) the amount of such excess which is no greater than 25 per centum of the sums available to carry out this subsection for any fiscal year shall be available to the Chairman for making grants under this subsection to States and regional groups; and "(B) the amount of such excess, if any, which re 1 2 3 4 5 6 4 mains after reserving in full for the Chairman the amount required under clause (A) shall be allotted among the States which have plans approved by the Chairman in equal amounts, but in no event shall any "(4) (A) That part of any allotment made under 7 paragraph (3) for any fiscal year— 8 9 10 "(i) which exceeds $62,500, but "(ii) which does not exceed 20 per centum of such allotment, 11 shall be available, at the discretion of the Chairman, to pay 12 up to 100 per centum of the cost of programs under this 13 subsection if such programs would otherwise be unavailable to the residents of that State. “(B) Any amount allotted to a State under the first sentence of paragraph (3) for any fiscal year which is not obligated by the State prior to sixty days prior to the end of the fiscal year for which such sums are appropriated shall be available to the Chairman for making grants to regional groups. "(C) Funds made available under this subsection shall not be used to supplant non-Federal funds. "(D) For the purposes of paragraph (3) and this paragraph, the term ‘regional group' means any multi-State group, whether or not representative of contiguous States. 5 1 "(5) All amounts allotted or made available under 2 paragraph (3) for a fiscal year which are not granted to a 3 State during such year shall be available to the National En4 dowment for the Humanities for the purpose of carrying 5 out section 5 (c). 6 "(6) Whenever the Chairman, after reasonable notice 7 and opportunity for hearing, finds that— 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 "(A) a group is not complying substantially with the provisions of this section; “(B) a State agency is not complying substantially with terms and conditions of its State plan approved un der this section; or "(C) any funds granted to ag roup or State agency under this section have been diverted from the purposes for which they are allotted or paid, 16 the Chairman shall immediately notify the Secretary of the 17 Treasury and the group or State agency with respect to 18 which such finding was made that no further grants will be 19 made under this section to such group or agency until there 20 is no longer a defualt or failure to comply or the diversion 21 has been corrected, or, if the compliance or correction is im22 possible, until such group or agency repays or arranges the 23 repayment of the Federal funds which have been improperly 24 diverted or expended.". 25 (b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall be |