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S. 2828 118th Congress Senate

Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act

Official title: 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 do… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: 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.

Introduced: September 18, 2023 Introduced by: John Cornyn Republican · Texas See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Sep 18, 2023
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 Latest action September 18, 2023

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act

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.

 Related & companion bills 2
  • S 2735 Defending Hunters' Education Act of 2023
  • HR 5110 Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act
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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 5
All 5 Democratic 1 Republican 3
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Boozman, John
Arkansas · Sep 27, 2023
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Heinrich, Martin
New Mexico · Sep 27, 2023
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Capito, Shelley Moore
West Virginia · Sep 19, 2023
Sinema, Kyrsten
· Sep 18, 2023
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Tillis, Thomas
North Carolina · Sep 18, 2023
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2828: Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act. 118th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-2828/
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"S. 2828: Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act." 118th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-2828/.
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S. 2828, 118th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-2828/.
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