INTRODUCED
BY M. Hopkins
By Request of the Office of Budget and Program Planning
A BILL FOR AN ACT ENTITLED: "AN ACT ESTABLISHING PRIORITIES FOR CULTURAL AND AESTHETIC PROJECTS GRANT AWARDS; APPROPRIATING MONEY FOR CULTURAL AND AESTHETIC GRANTS; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE."
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA:
Section 1. Appropriation of cultural and aesthetic grant funds -- priority of disbursement. (1) The Montana arts council shall award grants for projects authorized by and limited to the amounts appropriated by [section 2] and this section. Money must be disbursed in priority order, first to projects covered under subsection (3) and second to projects listed in [section 2].
(2) The Montana arts council shall disburse money to projects authorized by [section 2] through grant contracts between the Montana arts council and the grant recipient. The award contract with a grantee must require the grantee to post the following statement on its website, promotional materials, and publications: "We are funded in part by coal severance taxes paid based upon coal mined in Montana and deposited in Montana's cultural and aesthetic projects trust fund." The award contract must bind the parties to conditions, if any, listed with the appropriation in [section 2].
(3) There is appropriated from the cultural and aesthetic projects trust fund account to the Montana Historical Society $30,000 for the biennium ending June 30, 2023, for care and conservation of capitol complex artwork.
Section 2. Appropriation of cultural and aesthetic grant funds. The following projects are approved, and $314,800 is appropriated to the Montana arts council for the biennium ending June 30, 2023, from the cultural and aesthetic projects trust fund account:
Grant # Grantee Award Amount
Special Projects
2213 Montana Historical Society $9,000
2214 Montana Preservation Alliance $7,000
2216 Museum of the Rockies $5,000
2219 Upper Swan Valley Historical Society, Inc. $4,000
2209 International Choral Festival $4,000
2215 Mountain Time Arts $4,000
2211 Missoula Writing Collaborative $4,000
2206 Friends of the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula $4,000
2207 Helena Symphony $3,000
2203 Council for the Arts, Lincoln $3,000
2217 Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art $3,000
2208 Historic Clark Chateau $3,000
2205 Eureka Community Players $3,000
2201 Billings Cultural Partners $3,000
2202 Bozeman Symphony Society $2,000
2204 Emerson Center for the Arts & Culture $2,000
2210 Montana Playwrights Network $2,000
2218 Queen City Ballet Company $2,000
2212 Montana Chamber Music Society $0
Operating Support
2246 Humanities Montana $10,000
2261 Montana Shakespeare in the Parks $10,000
2252 MAPS Media Institute $7,000
2223 Art Mobile of Montana $8,000
2263 Museums Association of Montana $8,000
2221 Alpine Artisans, Inc. $6,000
2222 Archie Bray Foundation $6,000
2245 Holter Museum of Art $6,000
2226 Billings Symphony Society $4,300
2271 Stillwater Historical Society $6,700
2276 Western Heritage Center $6,300
2254 MonDak Heritage Center $6,700
2253 MCT, Inc. $5,000
2251 Mai Wah Society Museum $5,000
2220 Alberta Bair Theater $4,300
2279 Yellowstone Art Museum $4,300
2238 Glacier County Historical Museum $5,400
2225 Billings Preservation Society $4,300
2228 Butte Citizens for Preservation and Revitalization $4,000
2274 Verge Theater $4,000
2270 Schoolhouse History & Art Center $4,700
2277 Whitefish Theatre Co $4,000
2260 Montana Repertory Theatre $5,000
2239 Glacier Symphony and Chorale $3,000
2237 Friends of Big Sky Education DBA Warren Miller Performing Arts Center $3,000
2255 Montana Association of Symphony Orchestras $5,000
2233 Cohesion Dance Project $4,000
2280 Zootown Arts Community Center $4,000
2243 Helena Presents/Myrna Loy Center $3,000
2240 Grandstreet Broadwater Productions, Inc. $3,000
2272 Support Local Artists and Musicians (S.L.A.M.) $3,000
2275 WaterWorks Art Museum $3,700
2249 Lewistown Art Center $3,700
2256 Montana Ballet Company $3,000
2268 Ravalli County Museum $3,400
2224 Arts Missoula (Formerly Missoula Cultural Council) $2,000
2234 Conrad Mansion Museum $3,000
2250 MAGDA $5,000
2242 Hamilton Players, Inc $3,400
2266 Northwest Montana Historical Society $3,000
2244 Hockaday Museum of Art $2,000
2248 International Wildlife Film Festival $2,000
2231 Carbon County Arts Guild & Depot Gallery $3,700
2265 North Valley Music School $3,000
2229 Butte Symphony Association $3,000
2267 Pondera Arts Council $3,400
2235 Creative Arts Council $3,400
2247 Intermountain Opera Association $3,000
2259 Montana Performing Arts Consortium $3,000
2273 The Extreme History Project $2,000
2257 Montana Dance Arts Association $2,000
2232 Carbon County Historical Society $2,700
2236 Daly Mansion Preservation Trust $2,400
2264 National Museum of Forest Service History $0
2241 Great Falls Symphony $0
2278 World Museum of Mining $0
2269 Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre $0
2230 C.M. Russell Museum $0
2258 Montana Flute Association $0
2262 Montana State Firefighters Memorial $5,000
2227 Bozeman Art Museum $0
Capital Expenditures
2281 Buses of Yellowstone Preservation Trust $4,000
2284 Missoula Art Museum $5,000
2282 Fort Peck Fine Arts Council, Inc. $5,000
2283 Gallatin Art Crossing $0
Section 3. Reversion of grant money. On July 1, 2023, the unencumbered balance of the grants for the biennium ending June 30, 2023, reverts to the cultural and aesthetic projects trust fund account provided for in 15-35-108.
Section 4. Changes to grants on pro rata basis. Except for the appropriation provided for in [section 1(3)], if money in the cultural and aesthetic projects trust fund account is insufficient to fund projects at the appropriation levels contained in [section 2], reductions to those projects with funding greater than $2,000 must be made on a pro rata basis.
Section 5. Effective date. [This act] is effective July 1, 2021.