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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9720
IN SENATE
April 2, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed 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-six--two
5 thousand twenty-seven, 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 on the first of April next succeeding
16 the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06741-03-6
