Arts and Humanities Act of 1979

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Arts and Humanities Act of 1979 - Amends the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 to require two-thirds of the members of the National Council on the Arts or the National Council on the Humanities to approve any grant or contract involving an expenditure for the purpose of any project organized to carry out the purpose of such Act. Requires the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts to submit a report justifying an exemption from the requirement that all printing and binding for any establishment of the Federal Government be done at the Government Printing Office, to the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources in order to make contracts or grants-in-aid to groups for the printing of projects and publications necessary to carry out the purpose of such Act. Allows the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts to make limited grants to State and regional groups for projects and productions which have a substantial artistic and cultural significance when the sums available for such grants in any fiscal year are in excess of the amount required to make the allotments set forth in the Act. Allows the Chairman of the National Council on the A…