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Senate Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
Senate of Pennsylvania
Session of 2017 - 2018
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | March 15, 2017 03:38 PM |
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| From: | Senator Vincent J. Hughes |
| To: | All Senate members |
| Subject: | Council on Jazz Education and Preservation |
| In the near future I plan to reintroduce Senate Bill 1234 from last session. This bill creates a Council on Jazz Education and Preservation, which would serve to preserve, promote, educate, and market jazz in the Commonwealth. This legislation creates a Council on Jazz Education and Preservation, modeled after the Council on the Arts, which would be responsible for providing grants to organizations that promote, encourage, foster, market and preserve jazz throughout the Commonwealth. The Council is compromised of one member appointed by the Governor and one member appointed by each caucus. As you may know, April is Jazz Appreciation Month and Pennsylvania has a rich history with Jazz. Artists from Billie Holiday to the Dorsey Brothers were born here, while others, such as John Coltrane and Dizzy Gillespie, spent time in the Commonwealth honing their sounds. I hope you join me in preserving, promoting, educating and marketing jazz in our Commonwealth. The rich history Jazz has in our Commonwealth must be supported and preserved. Previous cosponsors of this legislation were: Costa, Haywood, Mensch, Rafferty, and Reschenthaler. Please contact Michael Deery in my office if you have any questions. |
Introduced as SB582