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bill NO. _____________
INTRODUCED
BY _________________________________________________
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:
NEW SECTION. 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.
(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 $30,000 from the cultural and aesthetic projects trust fund account to the Montana historical society for the biennium ending June 30, 2025, for the care and conservation of capitol complex artwork.
NEW SECTION. Section 2. Appropriation of cultural and aesthetic grant funds. The following projects are approved, and $558,876 is appropriated from the cultural and aesthetic projects trust fund account to the Montana arts council for the biennium ending June 30, 2025:
Grant # Grantee Award Amount
Special Projects
2407 Preserve Montana (Formerly Montana Preservation Alliance) $10,000
2406 Montana Historical Society $9,000
2402 Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives $6,500
2401 Billings Preservation Society $7,000
2405 Lewistown Art Center $9,450
2404 Emerson Center for the Arts & Culture $10,000
2409 Upper Swan Valley Historical Society, Inc. $4,000
2408 Support Local Artists and Musicians (S.L.A.M.) $10,000
2403 City County Preservation Committee $5,000
Operating Support
2445 Montana Shakespeare in the Parks $10,000
2431 Humanities Montana $10,000
2436 MCT, Inc. $10,000
2430 Holter Museum of Art $10,000
2435 MAPS Media Institute (Formerly Irwin & Florence Rosten Fnd) $10,000
2423 Cohesion Dance Project $5,000
2459 Western Heritage Center $10,000
2434 Mai Wah Society Museum $6,749
2429 Hockaday Museum of Art $10,000
2411 Alpine Artisans, Inc. $6,000
2453 Sunburst Arts and Education $6,000
2439 MonDak Heritage Center $10,000
2413 Art Mobile of Montana $10,000
2454 The Myrna Loy $10,000
2415 Billings Symphony Society $10,000
2451 Schoolhouse History & Art Center $10,000
2458 WaterWorks Art Museum $10,000
2438 Missoula Writing Collaborative $8,000
2442 Montana Dance Arts Association $5,000
2412 Archie Bray Foundation $10,000
2414 Billings Cultural Partners $4,500
2452 Stillwater Historical Society $8,000
2424 Glacier Symphony and Chorale $10,000
2410 Alberta Bair Theater $10,000
2450 Pondera Arts Council $4,000
2433 Montana Art Gallery Directors Association (MAGDA) $8,000
2443 Montana Performing Arts Consortium $10,000
2457 Verge Theater $10,000
2449 Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art $10,000
2444 Montana Repertory Theatre, University of Montana $10,000
2421 Carbon County Arts Guild & Depot Gallery $10,000
2432 Intermountain Opera Association $10,000
2456 The Roxy Theater (Formerly International Wildlife Film Festival) $4,000
2418 Butte Citizens for Preservation and Revitalization $4,500
2437 Missoula Symphony Association $10,000
2441 Montana Ballet Company $10,000
2417 Bozeman Symphony Society $10,000
2455 The Paradise Center $7,000
2425 Grandstreet Broadwater Productions, Inc. $10,000
2461 Whitefish Theatre Co $10,000
2427 Hamilton Players, Inc $10,000
2440 Montana Association of Symphony Orchestras $10,000
2422 Carbon County Historical Society $7,500
2416 Bozeman Art Museum $10,000
2428 Helena Symphony $10,000
2462 Zootown Arts Community Center $10,000
2420 C.M. Russell Museum $10,000
2419 Butte Symphony Association $10,000
2448 North Valley Music School $9,000
2447 Museums Association of Montana $10,000
2426 Great Falls Symphony $10,000
2446 Montana State Firefighters Memorial $6,000
2460 Whitefish Review, Inc. Capital Expenditures $10,000
2463 Friends of the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula $3,677
2464 Red Lodge Area Community Foundation $5,000
2465 Yellowstone Art Museum $10,000
NEW SECTION. Section 3. Reversion of grant money. On July 1, 2025, the unencumbered balance of the grants for the biennium ending June 30, 2025, reverts to the cultural and aesthetic projects trust fund account provided for in 15-35-108.
NEW SECTION. 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 provided in [section 2], reductions to those projects with funding greater than $2,000 must be made on a pro rata basis.
NEW SECTION. Section 5. Effective date. [This act] is effective July 1, 2023.