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2005 Session

Budget Amendments - HB1500 (Committee Approved)

Virginia Opera

Item 531 #88h

Item 531 #88h

First Year - FY2005 Second Year - FY2006
Nonstate Agencies
State Grants to Nonstate Entities-Nonstate Agencies FY2005 $0 FY2006 $50,000 GF

Language
Page 482, after line 18, insert:
"Out of the amounts for Financial Assistance for Cultural and Artistic Affairs, $50,000 the second year to support the educational program of the Virginia Opera."


Explanation
(This amendment provides $50,000 the second year to support the educational program of the Virginia Opera, which reaches some 200,000 Virginia school children every year. Virginia's Opera's program is the largest educational program of its kind in the country.)