DANCE/USA

Budget/Appropriations

- COVID19 relief appropriations for the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities; COVID19 relief appropriations for Arts in Education at the U.S. Department of Education and Title IV, Part A; COVID19 relief State and Foreign Ops Appropriations: Cultural Exchange funding at the U.S. Department of State; appropriations for Corporation for Public Broadcasting. - Additional appropriations for pandemic relief programs implemented by U.S. Small Business Administration, including the Paycheck Protection Program and the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant Program. - Urging Congress to reinstate Employee Retention Tax Credit program and to extend for 2022 year. - Urging Congress to extend and increase federal incentives for charitable contributions - Implementation of Fast Response Survey System for arts education - Urging U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to simplify its visa petition process for international artists and to ensure timely processing of petitions - Urging U.S. Department of Education to increase access to arts education process and to expand data collection of arts education programs across the country.

TargetedSENATE · HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES · Education, Dept of · State, Dept of (DOS) · Small Business Administration (SBA) · Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS) · Natl Endowment for the Arts

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

- S618, HR 1704: support for a universal charitable deduction available to all taxpayers, whether they itemize or not. - H.R. 513 - Nonprofits Support Act to modify the requirements for determining the unrelated business taxable income of tax-exempt organizations. - S. 1257 / H.R.3832 Legacy IRA Act: an expansion of the IRA Charitable Rollover to allow seniors starting at age 65 to make tax-free IRA rollovers to charities through life-income plans (charitable gift annuity or charitable remainder trust). - Reinstate the Employee Retention Tax Credit Program for Q4 and extend into 2022