1. (a) To be eligible for a matching grant for a fiscal year pursuant to this section and section 10-408, total donor contributions for the fiscal year for which such amount is calculated shall be not less than fifteen thousand dollars.
2. (b) For the portion of total donor contributions for the fiscal year which is equal to fifteen thousand dollars or more but does not exceed the total donor contributions for the prior fiscal year, there shall be a match of twenty-five per cent of such amount, provided no match pursuant to this subsection shall exceed two hundred fifty thousand dollars.
3. (c) For the portion of total donor contributions for the fiscal year which exceeds the total donor contributions for the prior fiscal year, there shall be a match of one hundred per cent of such amount, provided no match pursuant to this subsection shall exceed one million dollars.
4. (d) If in any fiscal year the total amount of matching grants to be paid pursuant to the provisions of this section and section 10-408, exceed the amount available for payments to arts organizations pursuant to section 10-406, all such matching grants shall be reduced on a pro rata basis.

(P.A. 88-355, S. 4, 8; P.A. 89-237, S. 6, 11; P.A. 93-353, S. 42, 52; P.A. 94-245, S. 17, 46; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-3, S. 33; P.A. 17-213, S. 2.)

History: P.A. 89-237 in Subsec. (b) changed the match for the portion of contributions equal to contributions for the prior fiscal year to a match of the portion of contributions equal to $25,000 or more but not exceeding the contributions for the prior fiscal year and in Subsec. (c) reduced the match for the portion of contributions which exceed contributions for the prior fiscal year from two to 100% and provided no such match exceed $1,000,000; P.A. 93-353 changed the terminology from commitment to grant and amended Subsec. (e) to substitute exceed the “investment earnings of” for exceed the “balance in” and made technical changes, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 94-245 deleted Subsec. (d) concerning donor contributions to endowments for arts organizations and relettered the remaining Subsec., effective June 2, 1994; Sec. 10-373p transferred to Sec. 10-407 in 2005; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-3 amended Subsecs. (a) and (b) to replace $25,000 with $15,000 and amended Subsec. (d) to delete reference to investment earnings of Arts Endowment Fund and add provision re department not to issue any grant in amount less than $500, effective July 1, 2016; P.A. 17-213 amended Subsec. (d) to delete provision re department shall not issue grant in amount less than $500, effective July 1, 2017.