1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to education; appropriating money for grants to civics education programs.
1.3 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.4 	Section 1. APPROPRIATIONS.
 1.5 		Subdivision 1.Department of Education. The sums indicated in this section are 
1.6 	appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of education for the fiscal years 
1.7 	designated.
1.8 		Subd. 2.Civics education grants. For grants to the Minnesota Civic Education Coalition, 
1.9 	Minnesota Civic Youth, Learning Law and Democracy Foundation, and YMCA Youth in 
1.10 	Government to provide civics education programs for Minnesota youth age 18 and younger. 
1.11 	Civics education means the study of constitutional principles and the democratic foundation 
1.12 	of our national, state, and local institutions, and the study of political processes and structures 
1.13 	of government, grounded in the understanding of constitutional government under the rule 
1.14 	of law.

1.15		$
	125,000
	.....
	2020
	
1.16		$
	125,000
	.....
	2021
	
1.17 	Any balance in the first year does not cancel but is available in the second year.