Federal money for schools to teach and practice environmental health.
S. 4914 — Green Ribbon Act of 2026 · Filed by Cory Booker (D-NJ) · 4 cosponsors · Introduced Jun 24, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill gives grants to states to help schools teach kids about the environment. It helps make school buildings greener and improves student and staff health. At least 40% of the money must go to schools with fewer resources. The bill also starts a similar program for museums and libraries. It creates a new federal office to help schools with green building and operations. The bill sets aside $10 million per year through 2032.
Who it affects
Schools and school districts get grants and help to become greener. State education agencies receive and hand out the money. Kids learn about the environment.
One thing to notice
At least 40% of grants must go to schools with fewer resources.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
4 cosponsors: 4 Democrats.
- Jun 24, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jun 24, 2026 — Referred to Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $670,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 50 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Cory Booker, who sponsored the bill, received $495,800 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- National Education Association — $670,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- grants — Money the government gives to states or schools that does not have to be paid back.
- state education agencies — Government offices in each state that run schools and education programs.
- environmental — Related to nature, air, water, land, and how living things survive.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (14,666 characters) on Sep 27, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 15,316 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 22, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-27.
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