I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1802 
To authorize the Secretary of Education to award grants to promote civic 
learning and engagement, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 26, 2013 
Mr. HONDA introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To authorize the Secretary of Education to award grants 
to promote civic learning and engagement, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Sandra Day O’Connor 
Civic Learning Act of 2013’’. 
SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that the Commissioner 
for Education Statistics, in administering the National As-
sessment of Educational Progress, should increase the 
sample size of students tested to improve disaggregation 
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and analysis of data regarding progress in history and 
civics. 
SEC. 3. CIVIC LEARNING GRANTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subpart 3 of part C of title II 
of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 6711 et seq.) is amended— 
(1) by repealing sections 2341 through 2344 
and inserting the following: 
‘‘SEC. 2341. CIVIC LEARNING GRANTS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may award com-
petitive grants to eligible entities for the development and 
implementation of programs to promote civic learning and 
engagement. 
‘‘(b) USE OF FUNDS.—An eligible entity shall use a 
grant received under this section to develop and implement 
a program to promote civic learning and engagement 
through instruction, professional development, and evalua-
tion activities that promote any of the following: 
‘‘(1) Equity through access to funding and pro-
gram benefits, including— 
‘‘(A) programs that meet the needs of stu-
dents with divergent learning styles, students of 
varying ethnic, racial, and socio-economic back-
grounds, and students who are English lan-
guage learners; and 
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‘‘(B) resources that serve student popu-
lations that have not traditionally received op-
portunities for high quality, engaging civic 
learning, with a special emphasis on inner-city 
and rural underserved students. 
‘‘(2) Innovation through design, settings, and 
delivery, including service learning, interactive on- 
line programming, and other approaches to engaging 
students in active learning and civic participation. 
‘‘(3) Scalability through broad, cost-effective 
implementation and institutionalization, including— 
‘‘(A) use of the latest technological devel-
opments; 
‘‘(B) an emphasis on programs designed to 
address relevant State and National educational 
standards; and 
‘‘(C) utilization of low per-participant cost 
models of expanding the number of active stu-
dents and teachers. 
‘‘(4) Accountability through assessment and 
identification of best practice models, including— 
‘‘(A) independent research and evaluation 
to help assess the effects of civic education pro-
grams on students’ knowledge, skills, and traits 
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of character essential for the preservation and 
improvement of constitutional democracy; 
‘‘(B) identifying techniques that succeed 
with traditionally underserved student popu-
lations; and 
‘‘(C) evaluation of teachers’ knowledge and 
the adequacy of the teaching facility. 
‘‘(c) DEFINITION OF ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—In this sec-
tion, the term ‘eligible entity’ means a nonprofit edu-
cational organization.’’; and 
(2) by redesignating sections 2345 and 2346 as 
sections 2342 and 2343, respectively. 
(b) CONFORMING CHANGES.— 
(1) Section 2342 of such Act (20 U.S.C. 6715), 
as redesignated by subsection (a)(2), is amended— 
(A) in subsection (a)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘organizations de-
scribed in section 2343(a)(3)’’ each place it 
appears and inserting ‘‘organizations expe-
rienced in the development of curricula and 
programs in civics and government edu-
cation and economic education for students 
in 
elementary 
schools 
and 
secondary 
schools in countries other than the United 
States’’; and 
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(ii) by striking ‘‘use funds made avail-
able under grants or contracts under sec-
tion 2343 to’’; 
(B) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘the 
Center for Civic Education, the National Coun-
cil on Economic Education, and organizations 
described in section 2343(a)(3)’’ and inserting 
‘‘an entity specified in subsection (a)’’; 
(C) in subsection (e), by striking ‘‘de-
scribed in section 2343’’ and inserting ‘‘speci-
fied in subsection (a)’’; and 
(D) in subsection (f)(2), by striking ‘‘the 
Center for Civic Education, the National Coun-
cil on Economic Education, or organizations de-
scribed in section 2343(a)(3)’’ and inserting 
‘‘an entity specified in subsection (a)’’. 
(2) The table of contents of such Act (20 
U.S.C. 6301 et seq.) is amended by striking the 
items relating to sections 2341 through 2346 and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘2341. Civic learning grants. 
‘‘2342. Cooperative civic education and economic education exchange programs. 
‘‘2343. Authorization of appropriations.’’. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 
2343 of such Act (20 U.S.C. 6716), as redesignated by 
subsection (a)(2), is amended to read as follows: 
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‘‘SEC. 2343. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
‘‘There are authorized to be appropriated for each of 
fiscal years 2015 through 2020— 
‘‘(1) $28,500,000 for grants under section 
2341; and 
‘‘(2) $1,500,000 for programs under section 
2342.’’. 
Æ 
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