Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act
Latest action · Oct 6, 2023 Became Public Law No: 118-17.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedAug 1, 2023
- Passed HouseSep 26, 2023
- Passed SenateSep 27, 2023
- To the PresidentOct 4, 2023
- Became lawOct 6, 2023Public Law 118-17
Summary
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.
Recorded votes 1
Newest first. Open one to see how every member voted.
Cosponsors 71
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Aug 1, 2023 to Sep 19, 2023; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-NC | Richard Hudson | Original | Aug 1, 2023 |
| R-VA | Ben Cline | Aug 4, 2023 | |
| R-NY | Claudia Tenney | Aug 4, 2023 | |
| R-TX | Lance Gooden | Aug 4, 2023 | |
| R-NC | Patrick T. McHenry | Aug 4, 2023 | |
| R-FL | Vern Buchanan | Aug 4, 2023 | |
| R-NC | Chuck Edwards | Aug 8, 2023 | |
| R-TN | Diana Harshbarger | Aug 8, 2023 | |
| R-NY | Elise M. Stefanik | Aug 8, 2023 | |
| R-TX | Keith Self | Aug 8, 2023 | |
| R-IL | Mary E. Miller | Aug 8, 2023 | |
| R-SC | Ralph Norman | Aug 8, 2023 | |
| R-MO | Sam Graves | Aug 8, 2023 | |
| R-NC | David Rouzer | Aug 11, 2023 | |
| R-WI | Glenn Grothman | Aug 11, 2023 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Aug 1, 2023Markup Sep 14, 2023Reported Sep 20, 2023 |
Actions 18
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Oct 6, 2023Signed by President.
- Oct 6, 2023Became Public Law No: 118-17.
- Oct 4, 2023Presented to President.
- Sep 29, 2023Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- Sep 27, 2023Passed/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)
In the Congressional Record 2
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S4707–S4709 | John Cornyn R-TX, Jon Tester D-MT, Kyrsten Sinema I-AZ, Lisa Murkowski R-AK, Thom Tillis R-NC | Sep 27, 2023 |
| House | Debate and remarks H4471–H4475Text printed H4471Recorded votes H4495enact | Bob Good R-VA, Burgess Owens R-UT, Glenn Grothman R-WI, Mark E. Green R-TN, Mark Takano D-CA, Nathaniel Moran R-TX, Rick W. Allen R-GA, Val T. Hoyle D-OR, Virginia Foxx R-NC | Sep 26, 2023 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Sep 18, 2023H.R. 5110, Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on September 14, 2023
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 169, no. 132, August 1, 2023, page H4159.
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| IF10414 | The Gender Earnings Gap | Resource | Feb 21, 2024 |
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 2735 | Defending Hunters' Education Act of 2023 | Related bill | Sep 6, 2023 |
| S 2828 | Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act | Related bill | Sep 18, 2023 |
Titles 7
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- 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.
- Short Titles as Passed Senate
- Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act
- Short Titles as Enacted
- Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act
- Short Title(s) as Reported to House
- Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act
- Short Title(s) as Passed House
- Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act
- Short Titles from ENR (Enrolled) bill text
- Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
Text 5
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- —Enrolled Bill
- Sep 27, 2023Received in Senate
- Sep 26, 2023Engrossed in House
- Sep 20, 2023Reported in House
- Aug 1, 2023Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
