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Relating to documentation of loans and gifts to museums and including applicability provisions
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 28, 2019
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 28, 2019
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to documentation of loans and gifts to museums. The bill requires a museum to fill out a gift form or a loan form, available from the state historical society, documenting each gift and loan made to the museum. The form is required to include the name, address, email address, and phone number of the lender or donor, a detailed description of and the date of the loan or gift, the duration of a loan, any terms governing the gift or loan, the name and phone number of the individual receiving the gift or loan on behalf of the museum, the name, address, and phone number of the museum receiving the gift or loan, and the physical address where the gift or loan will be housed.
Read the full explanation
“Donor” and “gift” are defined in the bill. The bill requires the museum to submit a copy of the completed form to the state historical society. The historical society must maintain all of the forms in a registry of museum loans and gifts. A gift form must be maintained for 25 years from the date of the gift. A loan form must be maintained for 10 years after the date the property is returned to the lender or claimant, or the property is disposed of, or the museum acquires title to the property due to termination of a loan or certain circumstances where a legal owner of the property cannot be identified. The director of the department of cultural affairs shall adopt rules to administer the forms and the registry of museum loans and gifts. If a lender or claimant of property on loan to a museum notifies the museum of a change of address, or a change in ownership of the property, the bill requires the museum to submit a copy of the notice to the historical society. The historical society must file the notice with the corresponding loan form on file in the registry of museum loans and gifts. The bill provides that a museum must check its records, as well as the registry of museum loans and gifts, prior to declaring property undocumented, or providing any notice required pursuant to Code chapter 305B. “Undocumented property” is defined in the bill as property in the possession of a museum for which the museum cannot determine the property’s owner.2A is applicable to all gifts and loans to a museum on or after July 1, 2019.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 28, 2019. It hasn’t reported yet.
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