Tennessee Code 4-20-202 – Appropriation to further artistic and cultural purposes
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 4-20-202
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
There is appropriated an additional sum of eighty thousand dollars ($80,000) annually to the Tennessee arts commission for the purpose of making an annual grant of that amount to Fisk University to employ a curator, security staff and other employees necessary to allow the Stieglitz Collection at Fisk University to be open to the public, to enable other art exhibits at Fisk University to be open to the public, to employ a docent to prepare educational materials and tours, to provide public information concerning the availability of the artistic and cultural resources at Fisk University, and to provide other necessary staff or services to implement the preceding purposes. The appropriation in this section is to become effective only if adopted as an amendment to the general appropriations act.