Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act

Bill: 118-s-2828
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2023-09-18
Policy area: Education
Latest action: action_date: 2023-09-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-09-18
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act</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 instruction or educational enrichment activities, such as archery, hunting, other shooting sports, 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 instruction or educational enrichment activities, such as archery, hunting, other shooting sports, or culinary arts.</p>

tv_txt: II 118th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2828 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES September 18, 2023 Mr. Cornyn (for himself, Ms. Sinema , and Mr. Tillis ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions A BILL To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to clarify that the prohibition on the use of Federal education funds for certain weapons does not apply to the use of such weapons in certain programs for activities such as archery, hunting, other shooting sports, or culinary arts.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act . 2. Clarification of prohibition on use of Federal education funds for certain weapons and related training 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 instruction or educational enrichment activities, such as archery, hunting, other shooting sports, or culinary arts before the period at the end.