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House Appropriations Committee approves hunting and trapping education bill after amendment removing DOE consultation
Summary
The House Appropriations Committee unanimously passed House Bill 24-60 as amended, removing a requirement that the Pennsylvania Game Commission work in consultation with the Department of Education and eliminating a provision that would have excused students from firearms safety instruction on parental request.
The House Appropriations Committee voted unanimously during its meeting to approve House Bill 24-60 as amended and refer it to the House floor. The amendment (A03877) removed a requirement that the Pennsylvania Game Commission consult with the Department of Education to develop an optional hunting and trapping education program for students in grades 6–12 and eliminated a provision that would have required schools to excuse students from firearms safety instruction upon a parent or guardian's request.
The committee executive director described the changes: "Amendment A03877 makes two changes to House Bill 24-60. The first being that it removes the requirement for the Pennsylvania Game Commission to work in consultation with the Department of Education to develop a model hunting and trapping education program. Second, it removes the provision requiring schools to excuse students from firearms safety instruction upon request by a parent or legal guardian." The description was read to the committee at the chair's request and no negative votes on the amendment were recorded.
After the amendment passed, the chair called for a vote on HB 24-60 as amended; the committee agreed and the chair announced the bill will pass the committee and be referred to the House floor. The transcript records that members supported the measure unanimously; individual roll-call tallies by name were not recorded in the segments read aloud for this item.
Why it matters: HB 24-60 would create an optional educational program on hunting and trapping that local schools could adopt for grades 6–12 and assigns the Pennsylvania Game Commission responsibility for developing the program. The committee's amendment removed the explicit requirement for consultation with the Department of Education and removed the school excusal provision, which narrows the bill's direction on how the program would be developed and implemented.
Next steps: The committee referred HB 24-60, as amended, to the House floor for further consideration.
