IIB 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2591 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and 
Public Works 
AN ACT 
To amend the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act 
to modernize the funding of wildlife conservation, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Modernizing the Pitt-
man-Robertson Fund for Tomorrow’s Needs Act’’. 
SEC. 2. PURPOSE. 
The first section of the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife 
Restoration Act (16 U.S.C. 669) is amended by adding 
at the end the following: ‘‘One of the purposes of this Act 
is to provide financial and technical assistance to the 
States for the promotion of hunting and recreational 
shooting.’’. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
Section 2 of the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restora-
tion Act (16 U.S.C. 669a) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (2) through 
(8) as paragraphs (4) through (10), respectively; 
and 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(2) for the purposes of determining the num-
ber of paid hunting-license holders in a State, the 
term ‘fiscal year’ means the fiscal year or license 
year of the State; 
‘‘(3) the term ‘hunter recruitment and rec-
reational shooter recruitment’ means any activity or 
project to recruit or retain hunters and recreational 
shooters, including by— 
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‘‘(A) using social media, marketing, adver-
tising, surveying, television spots, print, and 
media; 
‘‘(B) providing education, mentoring, and 
field demonstrations; 
‘‘(C) enhancing access for hunting and rec-
reational shooting, including through range con-
struction; 
‘‘(D) providing education to the public 
about the role of hunting and recreational 
shooting in funding wildlife conservation; and 
‘‘(E) using any other means to ensure the 
growth of hunting and recreational shooting, as 
determined by the Secretary;’’. 
SEC. 4. ALLOCATION AND APPORTIONMENT OF AVAILABLE 
AMOUNTS. 
(a) APPORTIONMENT TO STATES.—Section 4(b) of 
the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act (16 
U.S.C. 669c(b)) is amended— 
(1) in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘The Sec-
retary of the Interior’’ and inserting the following: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary’’; 
(2) in the second sentence, by striking ‘‘Such 
apportionments’’ and inserting the following: 
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‘‘(2) 
ADJUSTMENTS.—The 
apportionments 
under paragraph (1)’’; 
(3) by striking the third sentence; and 
(4) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) USE OF FUNDS.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Subject to subpara-
graph (B), amounts apportioned under this 
subsection may be used for hunter recruitment 
and recreational shooter recruitment. 
‘‘(B) LIMITATION.—A State may make an 
expenditure under subparagraph (A) only if the 
amount of the expenditure during the fiscal 
year in which the expenditure is made plus the 
amount of the expenditures for hunter recruit-
ment and recreational shooter recruitment 
made during the 4 fiscal years preceding that 
fiscal year is not greater than 25 percent of the 
total amount apportioned to the State under 
this subsection during that 5-fiscal-year pe-
riod.’’. 
(b) APPORTIONMENT OF CERTAIN TAXES.—The first 
subsection (c) of section 4 of the Pittman-Robertson Wild-
life Restoration Act (16 U.S.C. 669c) is amended— 
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