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Title II — Creative Community Development

S. 650 · 116th Congress · Mar 5, 2019 · Lineage

II Creative Community Development

Sec. 201 Artist Corps

(a)
Corps— Section 122(a) of the National and Community Service Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12572(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(6) Artist Corps

“(A) In general—The recipient may carry out national service programs through an Artist Corps that identifies and meets unmet needs within communities through artistic activities such as those described in subparagraph (B) and improves performance on the indicators described in subparagraph (C).

“(B) Activities—An Artist Corps described in this paragraph may carry out activities such as—

“(i) providing skilled visual and performance artists to address community needs through artistic activities in education, health care, and therapeutic settings, and in other settings in the community; or

“(ii) providing other artistic activities, addressing unmet community needs, that the Corporation may designate, such as providing technical assistance for grant writing, marketing, and financial planning for artistic initiatives.

“(C) Artist Corps indicators—The indicators for a corps program described in this paragraph are—

“(i) any indicator relating to meeting critical needs that the Corporation establishes; or

“(ii) any local indicator (applicable to a particular recipient or community and on which an improvement in performance is needed) relating to meeting critical needs, that is approved by the Corporation or a State Commission.”

(b)
Conforming amendments— Section 122 of such Act is amended—
(1)
in subsection (b)(3), by striking “or (5)” and inserting “(5), or (6)”; and
(2)
in subsection (c)(1), in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking “through (5)” and inserting “through (6)”.

Sec. 202 Demonstration program on support of local programs that promote creative and performance arts in local economic planning

(a)
Demonstration program required— The Secretary of Commerce shall establish a demonstration program to assess the feasibility and advisability of providing support to covered programs to promote creative and performing arts in the economic planning of local governments.
(b)
Covered programs— For purposes of the demonstration program required by subsection (a), a covered program is any program that—
(1)
was in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act; and
(2)
the Secretary of Commerce considers part of an art community.

Sec. 203 Creative placemaking activities under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974

Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) is amended—
(1)
in section 102(a) (42 U.S.C. 5302(a)), by adding at the end the following:

“(25) The term creative placemaking means an activity that integrates arts, culture, or design to strengthen communities by advancing local economic, physical, or social outcomes.”

(2)
in section 105(a) (42 U.S.C. 5305(a))—
(A)
in paragraph (25)(D), by striking “and” at the end;
(B)
in paragraph (26), by striking the period at the end and inserting “; and”; and
(C)
by adding at the end the following:

“(27) activities that support creative place­mak­ing through—

“(A) partnerships between local governments and nonprofit cultural organizations for the purpose of community development; or

“(B) disseminating knowledge about how to leverage arts and culture as mechanisms for community development.”