118th Congress Education
S. 2828: Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act
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Summary
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.
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.
Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Roll calls
No roll call votes have been held on this bill.
Amendments
No amendments were offered to this bill.
Cosponsors
- Kyrsten Sinema I-AZOriginal
- Thom Tillis R-NCOriginal
- Shelley Capito R-WV
- John Boozman R-AR
- Martin Heinrich D-NM
Who scored on this bill
- 1John Cornyn SponsorDrew cross-party cosponsors, introduced2 events+6
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History
- Introduced in the Senate by John Cornyn.
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- Introduced in Senate
- Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.