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. APPROPRIATION; CIVIC EDUCATION.
 1.6 	$200,000 in fiscal year 2018 and $200,000 in fiscal year 2019 are appropriated from the 
1.7 	arts and cultural heritage fund to the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Humanities Center 
1.8 	for grants to the Minnesota Civic Education Coalition: Minnesota Civic Youth, the Learning 
1.9 	Law and Democracy Foundation, and YMCA Youth in Government to conduct civics 
1.10 	education programs for the civic and cultural development of Minnesota youth. Civics 
1.11 	education is the study of constitutional principles and the democratic foundation of our 
1.12 	national, state, and local institutions and the study of political processes and structures of 
1.13 	government, grounded in the understanding of constitutional government under the rule of 
1.14 	law.