Title: Every Kid Outdoors Act
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
Every Kid Outdoors Act
This bill directs the Departments of the Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, and the Army to establish the Every Kids Outdoors program to provide fourth graders free access to federal lands and waters to which the public has access.
Such Departments shall issue such students annual passes, upon request, which shall allow free access to:
In carrying out such program, such departments:

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1522 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1522

  To establish an Every Kid Outdoors program, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 10, 2017

 Mr. Heinrich (for himself and Mr. Alexander) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To establish an Every Kid Outdoors program, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Every Kid Outdoors Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Federal land and waters.--The term ``Federal land and 
        waters'' means any Federal land or body of water under the 
        jurisdiction of any of the Secretaries to which the public has 
        access.
            (2) Program.--The term ``program'' means the Every Kid 
        Outdoors program established under section 3(a).
            (3) Secretaries.--The term ``Secretaries'' means--
                    (A) the Secretary of the Interior, acting through--
                            (i) the Director of the National Park 
                        Service;
                            (ii) the Director of the United States Fish 
                        and Wildlife Service;
                            (iii) the Director of the Bureau of Land 
                        Management; and
                            (iv) the Commissioner of Reclamation;
                    (B) the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through 
                the Chief of the Forest Service;
                    (C) the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the 
                Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
                Administration; and
                    (D) the Secretary of the Army, acting through the 
                Chief of Engineers of the Corps of Engineers.
            (4) Students.--The term ``students'' means a student in 
        grade 4.

SEC. 3. EVERY KID OUTDOORS PROGRAM.

    (a) Establishment.--The Secretaries shall jointly establish a 
program, to be known as the ``Every Kid Outdoors program'', to provide 
free access to Federal land and waters for students and accompanying 
individuals in accordance with this section.
    (b) Annual Passes.--
            (1) In general.--On request of a student, the Secretaries 
        shall issue a pass to the student, which shall allow access to 
        Federal land and waters free of charge for the student and--
                    (A) in the case of a per-vehicle fee area--
                            (i) any passengers accompanying the student 
                        in a private, noncommercial vehicle; or
                            (ii) not more than 3 adults accompanying 
                        the student on bicycles; or
                    (B) in the case of a per-person fee area, not more 
                than 3 adults accompanying the student.
            (2) Term.--A pass described in paragraph (1) shall be 
        effective during the period beginning on September 1 and ending 
        on August 30 of the following year.
            (3) Presence of student in grade four required.--A pass 
        described in paragraph (1) shall be effective only if the 
        student to which the pass was issued is present at the point of 
        entry to the applicable Federal land or water.
    (c) Other Activities.--In carrying out the program, the 
Secretaries--
            (1) may collaborate with State Park systems that opt to 
        implement a complementary Every Kid Outdoors State park pass;
            (2) shall maintain a publicly available website with 
        information about the program;
            (3) may provide visitor services for the program; and
            (4) may support approved partners of the Federal land and 
        waters by providing the partners with opportunities to 
        participate in the program.
    (d) Reports.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretaries shall jointly prepare a 
        report each year describing--
                    (A) the implementation of the program;
                    (B) the number and geographical distribution of 
                students who participated in the program; and
                    (C) the number of passes described in subsection 
                (b)(1) that were distributed.
            (2) Submission.--The Secretaries shall submit the report 
        described in paragraph (1) to Congress.
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