Arts, Humanities, and Museums Amendments of 1990

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Arts, Humanities, and Museums Amendments of 1990 - Title I: National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities - Amends the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (NFAHA) to include all those traditional arts practiced by the diverse peoples of this country under the definition of "the arts." Includes among supportable projects those that: (1) develop and enhance the widest public knowledge and understanding of the arts; (2) encourage public education in the arts; (3) enhance managerial and organizational skills and capacities; or (4) are international projects or productions. Authorizes contracts or grants to stimulate artistic activity and awareness which are in keeping with the varied cultural traditions of this Nation. Directs the Chairpersons of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to employ practical national information systems on the arts and on the humanities to prepare quadrennial (currently, biennial) state of the arts reports for the President and the Congress. Authorizes NEH financial assistance to foster programs and projects that provide access to and preserve materials important to research, education, and public understanding of the humanities. Authorizes the following NEH annual awards: (1) the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities; and (2) the Charles Frankel Prize, to up to five persons each year for outstanding contributions to the public's understanding of the humanities. Repeals authorization for a study of Federal support to museums by the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1995 for the NEA and the NEH. Title II: Museum Services - Amends the Museum Services Act (MSA) to revise membership and meetings of the National Museum Service Board and certain provisions concerning the Director of the Institute of Museum Services. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) grants to museums to increase and improve museum services; and (2) the Institute of Museum Services. Amends the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act to increase the maximum limits, for indemnity agreements under such Act, on: (1) aggregate loss or damage covered by all such agreements at any one time; (2) loss or damage covered for a single exhibition; and (3) the deductible for a single exhibition, according to the amount covered. Title III: Miscellaneous - Amends the Arts, Humanities, and Museums Amendments of 1985 to repeal the mandate for a study by the Comptroller General, which was due one year after the enactment of such Act, on alternative Federal funding of the arts and humanities. Amends Federal law relating to Federal officials to add the Director of the Institute of Museum Services to the list of positions at level IV of the Executive Schedule.

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• Reported to Senate (text)

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• Reported to Senate with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 25 September 1990

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 12 June 1990

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