- 2025 69th Legislature 2025 HB0009.2 - 1 - Authorized Print Version – HB 9 1 HOUSE BILL NO. 9 2 INTRODUCED BY J. FITZPATRICK 3 BY REQUEST OF THE OFFICE OF BUDGET AND PROGRAM PLANNING 4 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.” 8 9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA: 10 11 NEW SECTION. Section 1. 12 (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. 14 (2) The Montana arts council shall disburse money to projects authorized by [section 2] through 15 grant contracts between the Montana arts council and the grant recipient. The award contract with a grantee 16 must require the grantee to post the following statement on its website, promotional materials, and publications: 17 "Additional support from coal tax placed into Montana's Cultural and Aesthetic Projects Trust Fund." The award 18 contract must bind the parties to conditions, if any, listed with the appropriation in [section 2]. 19 (3) There is appropriated $30,000 from the cultural and aesthetic projects trust fund account to the 20 Montana historical society for the biennium ending June 30, 2027, for the care and conservation of capitol 21 complex artwork. 22 23 NEW SECTION. Section 2. The following 24 projects are approved, and $953,500 is appropriatedfrom the cultural and aesthetic projects trust fund account 25 to the Montana arts council for the biennium ending June 30, 2027: 26 Grant # Grantee Award Amount 27 Special Projects 28 2601 Billings Preservation Society $12,500 - 2025 69th Legislature 2025 HB0009.2 - 2 - Authorized Print Version – HB 9 1 2602 Chickadee Community Services $13,000 $20,160 2 2603 Emerson Center for the Arts & Culture $12,500 3 2604 Great Falls Public Library $12,500 $19,660 4 2605 International Choral Festival $13,000 $20,160 5 2606 Mission Valley Live $0 6 2607 Montana Jewish Project $13,000 $20,160 7 2608 The Extreme History Project $13,000 $2,000 8 2609 Working Quiet $13,000 $20,160 9 Operating Support 10 2610 Alberta Bair Theater $12,500 11 2611 Alpine Artisans, Inc. $13,500 $20,660 12 2612 Alpine Theatre Project $12,500 13 2613 Archie Bray Foundation $12,500 $19,660 14 2614 Art Mobile of Montana $13,500 $2,000 15 2615 Arts Missoula $12,500 $19,660 16 2616 Bare Bait Dance $12,500 $19,660 17 2617 Billings Symphony Society $12,500 18 2618 Bitterroot Performing Arts Council $12,500 19 2619 Bozeman Art Museum $12,500 $2,000 20 2620 Bozeman Symphony Society $12,500 $19,660 21 2621 Butte Citizens for Preservation and Revitalization $13,000 22 2622 C.M. Russell Museum $12,500 $2,000 23 2623 Carbon County Arts Guild & Depot Gallery $13,500 $20,660 24 2624 Carbon County Historical Society $13,500 $20,660 25 2625 Clay Studio of Missoula $12,500 $19,660 26 2626 Cohesion Dance Project $12,500 27 2627 Daly Mansion Preservation Trust $13,000 28 2628 Glacier Symphony and Chorale $12,500 - 2025 69th Legislature 2025 HB0009.2 - 3 - Authorized Print Version – HB 9 1 2629 Grandstreet Broadwater Productions, Inc. $12,500 2 2630 Great Falls Symphony $12,500 $19,660 3 2631 Hamilton Players, Inc $13,000 $20,160 4 2632 Helena Symphony $12,500 $2,000 5 2633 Hockaday Museum of Art $12,500 $19,660 6 2634 Holter Museum of Art $12,500 $19,660 7 2635 Humanities Montana $13,000 $20,160 8 2636 Lewistown Art Center $13,500 9 2637 MAGDA (Montana Art Gallery Directors Assoc.) $13,500 $20,660 10 2638 Mai Wah Society Museum $13,000 $20,160 11 2639 MAPS Media Institute $13,000 $20,160 12 2640 MCT, Inc. $12,500 $19,660 13 2641 Missoula Art Museum $12,500 $19,660 14 2642 Missoula Symphony Association $12,500 $19,660 15 2643 Missoula Writing Collaborative $12,500 $19,660 16 2644 MonDak Heritage Center $13,500 $20,660 17 2645 Montana Association of Symphony Orchestras $13,500 $20,660 18 2646 Montana Ballet Company $12,500 $19,660 19 2647 Montana Dance Arts Association $13,500 $2,000 20 2648 Montana Performing Arts Consortium $13,500 $20,660 21 2649 Montana Playwrights Network $13,000 $20,160 22 2650 Montana Repertory Theatre, University of Montana $12,500 23 2651 Montana Shakespeare in the Parks $12,500 $19,660 24 2652 Montana Youth Symphony $13,000 $20,160 25 2653 North Valley Music School $12,500 $2,000 26 2654 Opera Montana (Formerly Intermountain Opera) $12,500 27 2655 Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art $12,500 $19,660 28 2656 Park County Museum of Art $13,500 - 2025 69th Legislature 2025 HB0009.2 - 4 - Authorized Print Version – HB 9 1 2657 Pondera Arts Council $13,500 $2,000 2 2658 Preserve Montana $12,500 3 2659 Queen City Ballet Company $12,500 4 2660 Schoolhouse History & Art Center $13,500 $20,660 5 2661 St. Timothy's Summer Music Festival $5,000 $12,160 6 2662 Stillwater Historical Society $13,500 $20,660 7 2663 Stumptown Art Studio $12,500 $19,660 8 2664 Sunburst Arts and Education $13,500 $20,660 9 2665 The Myrna Loy $12,500 $19,660 10 2666 The Paradise Center $13,500 $20,660 11 2667 The Roxy Theater $12,500 $19,660 12 2668 Tinworks Art $12,500 $19,660 13 2669 Verge Theater $12,500 $19,660 14 2670 Western Heritage Center $12,500 15 2671 Whitefish Review, Inc. $12,500 $2,000 16 2672 Whitefish Theatre Co. $12,500 $2,000 17 2673 Zootown Arts Community Center $12,500 $19,660 18 Capital Expenditures 19 2674 Fort Peck Fine Arts Council, Inc. $13,000 $20,160 20 2675 Red Lodge Area Community Foundation $13,000 $20,160 21 2676 Yellowstone Art Museum $12,500 $19,660 22 23 NEW SECTION. Section 3. On July 1, 2027, the unencumbered 24 balance of the grants for the biennium ending June 30, 2027, reverts to the cultural and aesthetic projects trust 25 fund account provided for in 15-35-108. 26 27 NEW SECTION. Section 4. Except for the appropriation 28 provided for in [section 1(3)], if money in the cultural and aesthetic projects trust fund account is insufficient to - 2025 69th Legislature 2025 HB0009.2 - 5 - Authorized Print Version – HB 9 1 fund projects at the appropriation levels contained in [section 2], reductions to those projects with funding 2 greater than $2,000 must be made on a pro rata basis. 3 4 NEW SECTION. Section 5. [This act] is effective July 1, 2025. 5 - END -