It is important that you continue to let your state elected officials know the impact of AB 5 on your ability to work or sustain your organization. There is currently one bill, AB 2257 that includes amendments largely for musicians. California Arts Advocates supports these bills but also wants the legislature to know that further considerations still need to be made for other areas of the performing arts and in particular for workers connected to small budget community based tax-exempt organizations with budgets of $1 million and under who provide vital services and artistic programming to create cultural connections that serve all residents and provide an opportunity for work for emerging artists.

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We appreciate that fine artists, musicians, performing artists and specialized performers teaching master classes have been granted flexibility in AB 2257. We also see that many of the arguments justifying these exemptions could also apply to more artists and cultural workers who are inherently not subject to control and direction by the hiring entity of a small budget community based arts organization and look forward to further exploration of this in the next legislative session.

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