Summer for All Act

Key Points

• The bill creates a new federal grant program called Summer for All, funding summer camps, tutoring, and enrichment activities for youth ages 5 to 22 across the country.
• Programs that get grants must run at least 5 days a week for 5 weeks, be free for kids who qualify for reduced-price school lunch, and provide those kids meals at no cost.
• Money would flow through two grant tracks: one to community groups, nonprofits, and colleges, and another to state governments and tribal governments, split roughly evenly.
• Grant applicants get priority if they serve low-income kids, English learners, kids with disabilities, homeless youth, foster youth, or kids involved in the justice system.
• Programs receiving this money cannot discriminate against participants or staff based on race, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.
• Congress would need to approve $4 billion over the first four years and then $1 billion every year after that to keep the program running.