1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Advancing Equity Through the Arts and Humanities Act of 2023 . 2. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) Access to the arts and cultural programming influences positive social determinants and is integral to healthy communities. (2) In America, the received narrative is that the arts are for entertainment or for artists, but a deeper look shows the profound effect access to the arts has on those most impacted by the justice system, children, veterans, low-income communities, and self-designated non-artists. (3) Concentrated cultural districts are associated with reduced poverty without neighborhood displacement, improved child welfare, and lower morbidity. (4) Low-income neighborhoods with cultural resources have 14 percent fewer cases of child abuse and neglect, and 18 percent less serious crime than low-income neighborhoods without cultural resources. (5) Low-income students who participate in the arts, both in school and after school, have a dropout rate of just 4 percent or 5 times lower than their peers. Children with access to arts programming in schools showed a 22.55 percent improvement in math proficiency, a 12.62 percent improvement in reading, and suspensions were reduced by as much as 89 percent. (6) Seventy-one percent of at-risk students with high arts involvement attend college, whereas only 48 percent of at-risk students with low arts involvement attend college. (7) Participation in after-school arts programs causes juvenile crime to fall by 4.2 percent on average, and slightly more (5.4 percent) in lower-income cities. (8) Arts programming in prisons showed an 89-percent drop in infractions. (9) The cultural economy is significant not only in cities, but also in rural and tribal communities. Forty percent of Native American households on the Pine Ridge Reservation in Kyle, South Dakota, depend on home-based arts enterprises. (10) The arts heal the mental, physical, and moral injuries of war for military servicemembers and veterans, as well