 
   CHAPTER 26--SUPPORT AND SCHOLARSHIP IN HUMANITIES AND ARTS; MUSEUM 
                                SERVICES
 
    SUBCHAPTER I--NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES
 
Sec. 956a. National Capital arts and cultural affairs; grant 
        programs
        
    There is hereby authorized a program to support artistic and 
cultural programs in the Nation's Capital to be established under the 
direction of the Commission of Fine Arts. Not to exceed $7,500,000 
annually is authorized to provide grants for general operating support 
to eligible organizations located in the District of Columbia whose 
primary purpose is performing, exhibiting and/or presenting arts.
    Eligibility for grants shall be limited to not-for-profit, non-
academic institutions of demonstrated national repute and is further 
limited to organizations having annual income, exclusive of Federal 
funds, in excess of $1,000,000 for each of the three years prior to 
receipt of a grant. The following organizations are deemed eligible to 
receive grants under this section: Folger Theater, Corcoran Gallery of 
Art, Phillips Gallery, Arena Stage, the National Building Museum, the 
National Capital Children's Museum, the National Symphony Orchestra, the 
National Opera, and Ford's Theater.
    The Chairman of the Commission of Fine Arts shall establish an 
application process and shall, along with the Chairman of the National 
Endowment for the Arts and the Chairman of the National Endowment for 
the Humanities determine the eligibility of applicant organizations in 
addition to those herein named.
    Of the funds provided for grants, 70 per centum shall be equally 
distributed among all qualifying organizations and 30 per centum shall 
be distributed based on the size of an organization's total annual 
income, exclusive of Federal funds, compared to the combined total of 
the annual income, exclusive of Federal funds, of all eligible 
institutions. No organization shall receive a grant in excess of 
$500,000 in a single year.
    An application process shall be established no later than March 1, 
1986, and initial grants shall be awarded no later than June 1, 1986.

(Pub. L. 99-190, Sec. 101(d) [title II, Sec. 201], Dec. 19, 1985, 99 
Stat. 1224, 1261; Pub. L. 99-500, Sec. 101(h) [title II, Sec. 201], Oct. 
18, 1986, 100 Stat. 1783-242, 1783-281, and Pub. L. 99-591, Sec. 101(h) 
[title II, Sec. 201], Oct. 30, 1986, 100 Stat. 3341-242, 3341-281; Pub. 
L. 100-202, Sec. 101(g) [title II, Sec. 201], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 
1329-213, 1329-250; Pub. L. 101-121, title II, Oct. 23, 1989, 103 Stat. 
739; Pub. L. 106-219, Sec. 2, June 20, 2000, 114 Stat. 346.)

                          Codification

    Pub. L. 99-591 is a corrected version of Pub. L. 99-500.
    Section was not enacted as part of the National Foundation on the 
Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 which comprises this subchapter.


                               Amendments

    2000--Pub. L. 106-219 substituted ``National Opera'' for 
``Washington Opera Society'' in second par.
    1989--Pub. L. 101-121 substituted ``$7,500,000'' for ``$5,000,000'' 
in first par.
    1987--Pub. L. 100-202 substituted ``direction of the Commission of 
Fine Arts'' for ``direction of the National Endowment for the 
Humanities'' in first par. and amended third par. generally. Prior to 
amendment, third par. read as follows: ``The Chairman of the National 
Endowment for the Humanities shall establish an application process and 
shall, along with the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts 
and the Chairman of the Commission on Fine Arts determine the 
eligibility of applicant organizations in addition to those herein 
named.''
    1986--Pub. L. 99-500 and Pub. L. 99-591 substituted ``whose primary 
purpose is'' for ``which are engaged primarily in'' in first par. and 
``annual income, exclusive of Federal Funds,'' for ``an annual operating 
budget'', ``operating budget'', and ``operating budgets'' in third and 
fourth pars.


           Redesignation of Washington Opera as National Opera

    Pub. L. 106-219, June 20, 2000, 114 Stat. 346, provided that:
``SECTION 1. DESIGNATION.
    ``The Washington Opera, organized under the laws of the District of 
Columbia, is designated as the `National Opera'.
``SEC. 2. REFERENCES.
    ``Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper or other 
record of the United States to the Washington Opera referred to in 
section 1 shall be deemed to be a reference to the `National Opera'.''
