Defending Hunters' Education Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2735
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2023-09-06
Policy area: Education
Latest action: action_date: 2023-09-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-09-06
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Defending Hunters' Education Act of 2023</b></p> <p>This bill authorizes the use of federal elementary and secondary education funds to purchase or use dangerous weapons for purposes of providing students with educational enrichment activities and instruction, such as archery, hunter safety education, or culinary arts. </p> <p>Current law prohibits the use of these funds to provide any person with a dangerous weapon or training in the use of a dangerous weapon. The bill specifies that this prohibition shall not apply to the use of these funds for permissible program activities that provide students with educational enrichment activities and instruction, such as archery, hunter safety education, or culinary arts.</p>

tv_txt: II 118th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2735 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES September 6, 2023 Mr. Tester introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions A BILL To clarify that section 8526(7) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 does not apply with respect to the use of funds for activities carried out under programs authorized by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 that are otherwise permissible under such programs and that provide students with educational enrichment activities and instruction, such as archery, hunter safety education, or culinary arts.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Defending Hunters' Education Act of 2023 . 2. Exception Section 8526(7) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 7906(7) ) is amended by inserting , except that this paragraph shall not apply to the use of funds under this Act for activities carried out under programs authorized by this Act that are otherwise permissible under such programs and that provide students with educational enrichment activities and instruction, such as archery, hunter safety education, or culinary arts before the period at the end.