1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to arts and cultural heritage; appropriating money for civic education 
1.3 	grants.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATIONS; CIVIC EDUCATION GRANTS.
 1.6 	$300,000 in fiscal year 2022 and $300,000 in fiscal year 2023 are appropriated from the 
1.7 	arts and cultural heritage fund to the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Humanities Center 
1.8 	for civic education grants to the Minnesota Civic Education Coalition: YMCA Center for 
1.9 	Youth Voice, Youth in Government, and the Learning Law and Democracy Foundation, to 
1.10 	conduct civic education programs for the civic and cultural development of Minnesota 
1.11 	youth. Civic education is the study of the history, principles, and foundations of our 
1.12 	constitutional democracy and the development of skills needed to be engaged and effective 
1.13 	participants in today's public life. Any balance in the first year does not cancel and is available 
1.14 	in the second year.