Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act
This act 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.
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 act 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.
[118th Congress Public Law 17]
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Public Law 118-17
118th Congress
An Act
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 for training in
archery, hunting, or other shooting sports. <<NOTE: Oct. 6,
2023 - [H.R. 5110]>>
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Protecting
Hunting Heritage and Education Act.>>
SECTION <<NOTE: 20 USC 6301 note.>> 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting Hunting Heritage and
Education Act''.
SEC. 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.
Approved October 6, 2023.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 5110:
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HOUSE REPORTS: No. 118-207 (Comm. on Education and the Workforce).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 169 (2023):
Sept. 26, considered and passed House.
Sept. 27, considered and passed Senate.
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Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and the Workforce. H. Rept. 118-207.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and the Workforce. H. Rept. 118-207.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 168.
Mr. Grothman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4471-4475)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5110.
At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4495-4497)
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 424 - 1 (Roll no. 407). (text: CR H4471-4472)
Roll Call #407 (House)On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 424 - 1 (Roll no. 407). (text: CR H4471-4472)
Enacted as Public Law 118-17
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Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Received in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S4709)
Received in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4709)
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Became Public Law No: 118-17.
Became Public Law No: 118-17.