Bill Text: NY A04080 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to authorizing grants for the implementation of the seal of civic readiness program; authorizes grants of $50,000 to no more than 20 applicant school districts for public schools that have successfully completed both the seal of civic readiness application and commissioner created grant application.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A04080 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04080-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4080

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 9, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. CONRAD -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing grants for
          the implementation of the seal of civic readiness program

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 3641-c
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 3641-c. Grants for implementation of the  seal  of  civic  readiness
     4  program. Beginning with state fiscal year two thousand twenty-three--two
     5  thousand  twenty-four,  within the amount appropriated for such purpose,
     6  the commissioner shall establish  a  program  of  competitively  awarded
     7  grants of fifty thousand dollars to no more than twenty applicant school
     8  districts  per year, for public schools that have successfully completed
     9  both the seal of civic readiness application  and  commissioner  created
    10  grant application. Grants shall be awarded by the commissioner for exem-
    11  plary  applications that provide plans for the utilization of any combi-
    12  nation  of  teaching  and/or  clerical  staff,  community  partnerships,
    13  professional  development,  curriculum and instructional design to carry
    14  out the implementation of the seal of civic readiness program.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2023.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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