HR 5110 United States House · 118th Congress

Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act

HR 5110, the Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act, amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to clarify that federal education funds cannot be used for certain weapons - but this restriction does not apply to archery, hunting, or other shooting sports training programs. The bill directly affects schools and educational programs seeking to use federal funds for these specific activities, such as archery clubs or hunting safety education. It adds an explicit exception to the existing prohibition, allowing funds to support "educational instruction or enrichment activities" in these sports under authorized programs. This change removes ambiguity about funding eligibility for such educational initiatives in K-12 schools.

Issues: ✓ Education

Sub-Topics: K-12 Education

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Aug 2023

Committee Review

Sep 2023

House Passage

Sep 2023

Senate Passage

Sep 2023

Signed into Law

Oct 2023

Introduced Aug 1, 2023 Signed Oct 6, 2023

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What changed between versions

Introduced in House → Engrossed in House · 3 edits · Sep 26, 2023

MINOR

The engrossed version significantly broadens the exception to the federal prohibition on using education funds for certain weapons. Instead of only covering the provision or use of a weapon for archery, hunting, or shooting sports training, it now covers any activities under authorized programs that provide educational instruction or enrichment, with culinary arts added as an example alongside the original sports.

SCOPE

The exception to the weapons funding prohibition was expanded from narrowly covering 'the provision or use of such a weapon for purposes of training students in archery, hunting, or other shooting sports' to broadly covering '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.'

Culinary arts was added as an example of a covered activity, expanding the exception well beyond weapons-related sports to include activities like cooking classes that may involve knives or other cutting tools.

REQUIREMENT

A new condition was added requiring that the activities be 'otherwise permissible under such programs,' meaning they must already comply with existing program rules before the exception applies.

Floor votes · House Sep 26, 2023

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

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Committee

Amendments

Oct 6, 2023

Signed into law

Signed by President.

executive

Sep 27, 2023

Upper · Passed

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)

upper

Sep 26, 2023

Introduced

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)

lower

Sep 26, 2023

Lower · Passed

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)

lower

Sep 26, 2023

Introduced

Mr. Grothman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.

lower

Sep 20, 2023

Lower · Passed

Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and the Workforce. H. Rept. 118-207.

lower

Sep 14, 2023

Introduced

Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 42 - 0.

lower

Sep 14, 2023

Lower · Passed

Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

lower

Aug 1, 2023

Committee

Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

lower

Aug 1, 2023

Introduced

Introduced in House

lower

1 primary · 71 co-sponsors