AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS

ART · Arts/Entertainment

FY2025 and FY 2026 funding for Department of the Interior and related agencies, including funding for, and preservation of, NEA, NEH, National Park Service, Save America's Treasures, historic preservation, and the Smithsonian Institution. Opposition to elimination of the NEA and NEH and opposition to cancellation of grants.

EDU · Education

FY 2025 and FY 2026 House Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations, including funding for, and preservation of, the Institute of Museum and Library Services; Arts Education, 21st Century Community Learning Centers, American History and Civics Education, Magnet Schools Assistance Program. Preservation and improvement of Public Service Loan Forgiveness. Opposition to elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services and opposition to cancellation of grants.

SCI · Science/Technology

FY 2025 and FY 2026 funding for Commerce, Justice, Science, including funding for, and preservation of, NSF Advancing Informal STEM Learning, NIH Science Education Partnership and Informal Science Education, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Informal Science Education Program and NASA grants for science museums and planetariums, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Education Program. Support for Multinational Species Conservation Funds.

TAX · Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Tax incentives for charitable donations, including gifts of property. Artist-Museum Partnership Act, to allow artists a fair market-value deduction for charitable contributions of literary, musical, artistic or scholarly works created by the donor. Maintaining prohibitions on political endorsements by charitable nonprofits. Supporting a nonitemizer charitable deduction, the Charitable Act, (S. 317/H.R. 801) to allow taxpayers claiming the standard deduction to also deduct charitable contributions. Supporting and strengthening the historic tax credit. H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act, provisions impacting charitable giving including supporting a nonitemizer charitable deduction, opposing expanding excise tax on investment income of university endowments, opposing increasing foundation excise tax, and opposing floors and limits on charitable giving contributions for itemized deductions.

Literal federal measure citations: S. 317, H.R. 801, H.R. 1

IND · Indian/Native American Affairs

FY 2026 funding for the Department of the Interior and related agencies. Funding for the National Park Service and Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) compliance, and Historic Preservation Fund. Rules and regulations relating to NAGPRA and other issues.

FOR · Foreign Relations

Protection of cultural property around the world. Travel promotion and Brand USA.

BUD · Budget/Appropriations

Committee for Education Funding coalition letters to raise Non-Defense Discretionary Funding and Labor-HHS-Education and Related Agencies education funding allocation. Opposition to federal government shutdown.