HB 174 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NEW DEAL ART

Rep Matthew McQueen

Actions: [2] HRDLC/HAFC-HRDLC [3] DP-HAFC

Scheduled: Not Scheduled

  House Bill 174 (HB 174) appropriates one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to the Cultural Affairs Department to conduct a feasibility study to establish a National Museum of New Deal Art. 

 House Bill 174 (HB 174) appropriates one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) from the General Fund (GF) to the Cultural Affairs Department (DCA) for expenditure for Fiscal Years (FY) 2025 through FY 2026 to conduct a feasibility study to establish a National Museum of New Deal Art.

Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY 2026 reverts to the GF.
 

 Various secretary of state offices representing an assortment of states nationwide came together in 1998 in Santa Fe to discuss all the New Deal accomplishments that were still serving Americans in their individual states and concern that all of those sites needed to be preserved, conserved or restored.  This meeting lead to the formation of the National New Deal Preservation Association spearheaded by former NM secretary of state, Kathy Flynn. 
In 2019, the state legislature passed a memorial requesting NM’s congressional delegates to investigate the possibility of establishing a National New Deal Art Museum in Santa Fe with the suggestion it be housed in the National Park Service’s building on Old Santa Fe Trail that the Civilian Conservation Corps constructed in the 1930s.