67th Legislature HB 9.01
1 HOUSE BILL NO. 9
2 INTRODUCED BY M. HOPKINS
3 BY REQUEST OF THE OFFICE OF BUDGET AND PROGRAM PLANNING
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5 A BILL FOR AN ACT ENTITLED: “AN ACT ESTABLISHING PRIORITIES FOR CULTURAL AND AESTHETIC
6 PROJECTS GRANT AWARDS; APPROPRIATING MONEY FOR CULTURAL AND AESTHETIC GRANTS;
7 AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.”
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9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA:
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11 NEW SECTION. Section 1. Appropriation of cultural and aesthetic grant funds -- priority of
12 disbursement. (1) The Montana arts council shall award grants for projects authorized by and limited to the
13 amounts appropriated by [section 2] and this section. Money must be disbursed in priority order, first to projects
14 covered under subsection (3) and second to projects listed in [section 2].
15 (2) The Montana arts council shall disburse money to projects authorized by [section 2] through grant
16 contracts between the Montana arts council and the grant recipient. The award contract must bind the parties to
17 conditions, if any, listed with the appropriation in [section 2].
18 (3) There is appropriated from the cultural and aesthetic projects trust fund account to the Montana
19 Historical Society $30,000 for the biennium ending June 30, 2023, for care and conservation of capitol complex
20 artwork.
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22 NEW SECTION. Section 2. Appropriation of cultural and aesthetic grant funds. The following
23 projects are approved, and $309,800 is appropriated to the Montana arts council for the biennium ending June
24 30, 2023, from the cultural and aesthetic projects trust fund account:
25 Grant # Grantee Award Amount
26 Special Projects
27 2213 Montana Historical Society $9,000
28 2214 Montana Preservation Alliance $7,000
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1 2216 Museum of the Rockies $5,000
2 2219 Upper Swan Valley Historical Society, Inc. $4,000
3 2209 International Choral Festival $4,000
4 2215 Mountain Time Arts $4,000
5 2211 Missoula Writing Collaborative $4,000
6 2206 Friends of the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula $4,000
7 2207 Helena Symphony $3,000
8 2203 Council for the Arts, Lincoln $3,000
9 2217 Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art $3,000
10 2208 Historic Clark Chateau $3,000
11 2205 Eureka Community Players $3,000
12 2201 Billings Cultural Partners $3,000
13 2202 Bozeman Symphony Society $2,000
14 2204 Emerson Center for the Arts & Culture $2,000
15 2210 Montana Playwrights Network $2,000
16 2218 Queen City Ballet Company $2,000
17 2212 Montana Chamber Music Society $0
18 Operating Support
19 2246 Humanities Montana $10,000
20 2261 Montana Shakespeare in the Parks $10,000
21 2252 MAPS Media Institute $7,000
22 2223 Art Mobile of Montana $8,000
23 2263 Museums Association of Montana $8,000
24 2221 Alpine Artisans, Inc. $6,000
25 2222 Archie Bray Foundation $6,000
26 2245 Holter Museum of Art $6,000
27 2226 Billings Symphony Society $4,300
28 2271 Stillwater Historical Society $6,700
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1 2276 Western Heritage Center $6,300
2 2254 MonDak Heritage Center $6,700
3 2253 MCT, Inc. $5,000
4 2251 Mai Wah Society Museum $5,000
5 2220 Alberta Bair Theater $4,300
6 2279 Yellowstone Art Museum $4,300
7 2238 Glacier County Historical Museum $5,400
8 2225 Billings Preservation Society $4,300
9 2228 Butte Citizens for Preservation and Revitalization $4,000
10 2274 Verge Theater $4,000
11 2270 Schoolhouse History & Art Center $4,700
12 2277 Whitefish Theatre Co $4,000
13 2260 Montana Repertory Theatre $5,000
14 2239 Glacier Symphony and Chorale $3,000
15 2237 Friends of Big Sky Education DBA Warren Miller Performing Arts Center $3,000
16 2255 Montana Association of Symphony Orchestras $5,000
17 2233 Cohesion Dance Project $4,000
18 2280 Zootown Arts Community Center $4,000
19 2243 Helena Presents/Myrna Loy Center $3,000
20 2240 Grandstreet Broadwater Productions, Inc. $3,000
21 2272 Support Local Artists and Musicians (S.L.A.M.) $3,000
22 2275 WaterWorks Art Museum $3,700
23 2249 Lewistown Art Center $3,700
24 2256 Montana Ballet Company $3,000
25 2268 Ravalli County Museum $3,400
26 2224 Arts Missoula (Formerly Missoula Cultural Council) $2,000
27 2234 Conrad Mansion Museum $3,000
28 2250 MAGDA $5,000
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1 2242 Hamilton Players, Inc $3,400
2 2266 Northwest Montana Historical Society $3,000
3 2244 Hockaday Museum of Art $2,000
4 2248 International Wildlife Film Festival $2,000
5 2231 Carbon County Arts Guild & Depot Gallery $3,700
6 2265 North Valley Music School $3,000
7 2229 Butte Symphony Association $3,000
8 2267 Pondera Arts Council $3,400
9 2235 Creative Arts Council $3,400
10 2247 Intermountain Opera Association $3,000
11 2259 Montana Performing Arts Consortium $3,000
12 2273 The Extreme History Project $2,000
13 2257 Montana Dance Arts Association $2,000
14 2232 Carbon County Historical Society $2,700
15 2236 Daly Mansion Preservation Trust $2,400
16 2264 National Museum of Forest Service History $0
17 2241 Great Falls Symphony $0
18 2278 World Museum of Mining $0
19 2269 Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre $0
20 2230 C.M. Russell Museum $0
21 2258 Montana Flute Association $0
22 2262 Montana State Firefighters Memorial $0
23 2227 Bozeman Art Museum $0
24 Capital Expenditures
25 2281 Buses of Yellowstone Preservation Trust $4,000
26 2284 Missoula Art Museum $5,000
27 2282 Fort Peck Fine Arts Council, Inc. $5,000
28 2283 Gallatin Art Crossing $0
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2 NEW SECTION. Section 3. Reversion of grant money. On July 1, 2023, the unencumbered
3 balance of the grants for the biennium ending June 30, 2023, reverts to the cultural and aesthetic projects trust
4 fund account provided for in 15-35-108.
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6 NEW SECTION. Section 4. Changes to grants on pro rata basis. Except for the appropriation
7 provided for in [section 1(3)], if money in the cultural and aesthetic projects trust fund account is insufficient to
8 fund projects at the appropriation levels contained in [section 2], reductions to those projects with funding
9 greater than $2,000 must be made on a pro rata basis.
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11 NEW SECTION. Section 5. Effective date. [This act] is effective July 1, 2021.
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