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 or home- schooled learners who are 10 years old and reside in the United States 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 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1184 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1184

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 13, 2019

 Ms. DeGette (for herself, Mr. Tipton, Mr. Quigley, Ms. Stefanik, Mr. 
    Lynch, Mr. Graves of Louisiana, Mr. Cartwright, Ms. Judy Chu of 
     California, Mr. Gomez, Mr. Kilmer, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. 
   Lowenthal, Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, Ms. Pingree, Mr. 
    Pocan, Mr. Sarbanes, Mr. Thompson of California, Mr. Welch, Mr. 
  Yarmuth, Mr. Schiff, Ms. Dean, Mr. Smith of Washington, Ms. Torres 
Small of New Mexico, and Mr. Garamendi) introduced the following bill; 
   which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in 
   addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Transportation and 
   Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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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) State.--The term ``State'' means each of the several 
        States, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, the 
        Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of 
        the United States, and any other territory or possession of the 
        United States.
            (5) Student or students.--The term ``student'' or 
        ``students'' means any fourth grader or home-schooled learner 
        10 years of age residing in the United States, including any 
        territory or possession of the United States.

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.--At the request of a student, the 
        Secretaries shall issue a pass to the student, which allows 
        access to Federal lands and waters for which access is subject 
        to an entrance, standard amenity, or day use fee, 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 three adults 
                        accompanying the student on bicycles; or
                    (B) in the case of a per-person fee area, not more 
                than three 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 31 of the following year.
            (3) Presence of a 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) may coordinate with the Secretary of Education to 
        implement the program;
            (3) shall maintain a publicly available website with 
        information about the program;
            (4) may provide visitor services for the program; and
            (5) may support approved partners of the Federal land and 
        waters by providing the partners with opportunities to 
        participate in the program.
    (d) Reports.--The Secretary of the Interior, in coordination with 
each Secretary, shall prepare a comprehensive report to Congress each 
year describing--
            (1) the implementation of the program;
            (2) the number and geographical distribution of students 
        who participated in the program; and
            (3) the number of passes described in subsection (b)(1) 
        that were distributed.
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