Bill Text: CA SB1432 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Arts Council: grants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-23 - Held in committee and under submission. [SB1432 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB1432-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1432	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 1, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Lieu

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to add Section 8753.6 to the Government Code, relating to
state government, and making an appropriation therefor.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1432, as amended, Lieu. Arts Council: grants.
   Existing law establishes the Arts Council composed of 11 members,
with the Speaker of the Assembly and the Senate Committee on Rules
each appointing one member and the Governor appointing 9 members who
are subject to confirmation by the Senate. The Arts Council is
authorized to award grants, as specified.
   This bill would continuously appropriate the sum of $25,000,000
annually from the General Fund to the Arts Council to be used for
grants as currently authorized by law.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    The Legislature finds and declares all
of the following:  
   (a) The Arts Council was established in 1976 with an initial
General Fund budget of $750,000.  
   (b) By the 1982-83 fiscal year, the Arts Council had a budget of
nearly $11 million and reached a high of nearly $29 million in the
2000-01 fiscal year.  
   (c) Over the years, the Arts Council's budget has faced steady
cuts from almost $29 million in the 2000-01 fiscal year to $17
million in the 2003-04 fiscal year, and then $1 million from the
General Fund in subsequent fiscal years.  
   (d) In 1983, California spent $0.46 per person on the arts. 

   (e) Presently, California ranks last out of the 50 states and six
territories, with $0.03 in per capita spending on the arts. 

   (f) Adjusted for inflation, the 1983 Arts Council's budget would
be $25 million.  
   (g) It is the intent of the Legislature to restore funding to the
Arts Council to its 1983 level.  
   (h) The creative industries of California generate $273.5 billion
in total (direct, indirect, and induced) output.  
   (i) California's creative industries employ 1.4 million workers.
 
   (j) The direct, indirect, and induced workers of California's
creative industries paid nearly $13 billion in property taxes,
personal income taxes, and sales taxes into the General Fund and to
local governments.  
   (k) Every dollar in state support for the arts leverages $7 in
earned and contributed revenue, and brings back more than $3 in taxes
to state and local government entities.  
   (l) A $25 million investment per year in the arts would generate
$175 million in earned and contributed revenue and bring back more
than $75 million in taxes to state and local government entities.

   SECTION 1.   SEC. 2.   Section 8753.6 is
added to the Government Code, to read:
   8753.6.  Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, the
sum of  twenty five   twenty-five  million
dollars ($25,000,000) is hereby continuously appropriated from the
General Fund to the Arts Council each fiscal year. These funds shall
be used to issue grants to further the arts and California's robust
creative economy, as otherwise authorized to be issued under this
chapter.