AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS for AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS

Education EDU

FY 2022 House Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations, including funding for the Institute of Museum and Library Services; Arts Education, 21st Century Community Learning Centers, American History and Civics Education, Magnet Schools Assistance Program (H.R. 4502). Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act and preservation of Public Service Loan Forgiveness. Work Now Act (S. 740/H.R. 1987). Shuttered Venue Operators Grants program and funding for museums. Include museums in infrastructure proposals (H.R. 3684).

Contacted: Smithsonian Institution; Natl Endowment for the Arts; White House Office; Small Business Administration (SBA); State, Dept of (DOS); Education, Dept of; Natl Park Service (NPS); Natl Endowment for the Humanities; Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Natl Science Foundation (NSF); Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS); Interior, Dept of (DOI); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; Natl Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA); Natl Institutes of Health (NIH)

Bills named: S. 740 (117th), H.R. 1987 (117th), H.R. 4502 (117th), H.R. 3684 (117th)

Science/Technology SCI

FY 2022 funding for Commerce, Justice, Science (H.R. 4505), including funding for NSF Advancing Informal STEM Learning, NIH Science Education Partnership and Informal Science Education, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Informal Science Education Program and NASA grants for science museums and planetariums, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Education Program. Support for Multinational Species Conservation Funds.

Contacted: Education, Dept of; Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS); Natl Endowment for the Humanities; Smithsonian Institution; Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA); White House Office; Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); Natl Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); Natl Science Foundation (NSF); Internal Revenue Service (IRS); SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; State, Dept of (DOS); Natl Endowment for the Arts; Interior, Dept of (DOI); Small Business Administration (SBA); Natl Park Service (NPS)

Bills named: H.R. 4505 (117th)

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

Tax incentives for charitable donations, including gifts of property. Artist-Museum Partnership Act, to allow artists a fair market-value deduction for charitable contributions of literary, musical, artistic or scholarly works created by the donor. Maintaining prohibitions on political endorsements by charitable nonprofits. Supporting a universal charitable deduction (S. 618/H.R. 1704; H.R. 1081) to allow taxpayers claiming the standard deduction to also deduct charitable contributions. Supporting and strengthening the historic tax credit. Supporting the Legacy IRA Act (S. 243), which would broaden the IRA Charitable Rollover, allowing individuals to make tax-free distributions to planned giving accounts as well as to charities. Provisions to increase charitable giving and include nonprofits, including museums, in SBA and other loan and loan forgiveness programs. Extend the Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC) beyond 2021, modify nonprofit eligibility beyond the current gross receipts test, and oppose 4th quarter 2021 elimination in H.R. 3684. Support H.R. 6161 to provide for a reinstatement of the employee retention tax credit through 2021.

Contacted: Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA); White House Office; SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Natl Endowment for the Arts; Natl Science Foundation (NSF); Education, Dept of; Smithsonian Institution; Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); Natl Endowment for the Humanities; Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS); Interior, Dept of (DOI); Natl Park Service (NPS); Natl Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); Small Business Administration (SBA); State, Dept of (DOS)

Bills named: S. 618 (117th), H.R. 1081 (117th), H.R. 1704 (117th), H.R. 6161 (117th), H.R. 3684 (117th), S. 243 (117th)

Foreign Relations FOR

Protection of cultural property around the world. Travel promotion and Brand USA.

Contacted: Small Business Administration (SBA); SENATE; Interior, Dept of (DOI); Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); Natl Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); Education, Dept of; White House Office; Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS); State, Dept of (DOS); Natl Park Service (NPS); Natl Endowment for the Arts; Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Natl Science Foundation (NSF); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Natl Endowment for the Humanities; Smithsonian Institution; Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA)

Arts/Entertainment ART

FY 2022 funding for Department of the Interior/related agencies, including funding for NEA, NEH, National Park Service, Save America's Treasures, historic preservation and the Smithsonian (H.R. 4372/H.R. 4502).

Contacted: Smithsonian Institution; Natl Science Foundation (NSF); Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); Natl Endowment for the Humanities; White House Office; Education, Dept of; SENATE; Natl Park Service (NPS); Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS); Small Business Administration (SBA); Natl Endowment for the Arts; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Natl Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); Interior, Dept of (DOI); State, Dept of (DOS); Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA)

Bills named: H.R. 4372 (117th), H.R. 4502 (117th)

Indian/Native American Affairs IND

FY 2022 funding for the Department of the Interior and related agencies (H.R. 4372/H.R. 4502). Funding for the National Park Service and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, NAGPRA implementation, Historic Preservation Fund. Rules and regulations relating to Culturally Unidentifiable Human Remains and other issues.

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); State, Dept of (DOS); Natl Endowment for the Humanities; White House Office; SENATE; Natl Science Foundation (NSF); Natl Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); Education, Dept of; Small Business Administration (SBA); Natl Endowment for the Arts; Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS); Interior, Dept of (DOI); Smithsonian Institution; Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA); Natl Park Service (NPS)

Bills named: H.R. 4502 (117th), H.R. 4372 (117th)

Budget/Appropriations BUD

Committee for Education Funding coalition letter to raise Labor-HHS-Education and Related Agencies education funding allocation. Support and protect substantial financial aid to state and local governments in American Rescue Plan (H.R. 1319) to avoid layoffs and cuts to essential programs and services, and to prevent the imposition by governments of new costs and burdens on their nonprofit partners, including museums. Include museums in infrastructure proposals (H.R. 3684).

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA); SENATE; Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); State, Dept of (DOS); Small Business Administration (SBA); Natl Endowment for the Humanities; Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS); White House Office; Natl Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); Natl Park Service (NPS); Natl Science Foundation (NSF); Education, Dept of; Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Smithsonian Institution; Interior, Dept of (DOI); Natl Endowment for the Arts

Bills named: H.R. 1319 (117th), H.R. 3684 (117th)