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

1.4 	Section 1. APPROPRIATIONS; CIVICS PROGRAMS.
 1.5 	$200,000 in fiscal year 2020 and $200,000 in fiscal year 2021 are appropriated from the 
1.6 	arts and cultural heritage fund to the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Humanities Center 
1.7 	for grants to the Minnesota Civic Education Coalition of Minnesota Civic Youth, the Learning 
1.8 	Law and Democracy Foundation, and YMCA Youth in Government to conduct civics 
1.9 	education programs for the civic and cultural development of Minnesota youth. Civics 
1.10 	education is the study of constitutional principles and the democratic foundation of our 
1.11 	national, state, and local institutions and the study of political processes and structures of 
1.12 	government, grounded in the understanding of constitutional government under the rule of 
1.13 	law.