NASAA has released the State Arts Agency Fiscal Year 2025 Legislative Appropriations Preview, which provides a snapshot of state arts agency budgets collected just before the start of most states’ new fiscal year on July 1. It includes information on the total appropriations each state arts agency expects to receive for FY2025 and provides an update of FY2024 funding...
July 2, 2024 The U.S. Congress is out of session this week for the July 4th holiday. Before members left town, we saw a flurry of activity related to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Specifically, the long-awaited fiscal year 2025 funding proposal from the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee was released, calling for the NEA’s...
May 1, 2024 As this column goes to press, Congress is finally beginning the process of passing appropriations bills for fiscal year 2025. Its delay in doing so is not due to a lack of interest, but rather the result of the extended time it took Congress and President Biden to reach an agreement on the FY2024 bill. As you know, that legislation was ultimately...
March 11, 2024 From: Isaac Brown, Legislative Counsel Vol. 24:02 This morning, the Biden administration released its fiscal year 2025 budget request to Congress. This document, which is not binding, is the means through which the executive branch communicates to Congress its spending priorities for the upcoming fiscal year. In the document, the President requests...
April 3, 2024 March was on track to be one of the most consequential months of the year, with Congress facing a looming government shutdown and the President planning to submit his proposal for government funding to Congress for fiscal year 2025. Not only did Congress manage to avert two partial government shutdowns with last-minute, bipartisan agreements, but...