Every Kid Outdoors Reauthorization Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 5541 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5541 To amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to permanently authorize the Every Kid Outdoors program, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 23, 2025 Ms. Ansari (for herself, Ms. Balint, Ms. Barragan, Ms. Bynum, Mr. Carson, Ms. DeGette, Mr. Huffman, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Mr. Magaziner, Ms. McBride, Mr. Neguse, Ms. Norton, Mr. Thanedar, and Ms. Tlaib) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to permanently authorize the Every Kid Outdoors program, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Every Kid Outdoors Reauthorization Act''. SEC. 2. EVERY KID OUTDOORS REAUTHORIZATION. Section 9001 of the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act (Public Law 116-9; 16 U.S.C. 6804 note) is amended-- (1) in subsection (a)(5), by striking ``or home-schooled learner 10'' and inserting ``or fifth grader or home-schooled learner who is 10 or 11''; (2) in the heading for subsection (b)(2)(C), by striking ``in grade four''; and (3) in subsection (b), by amending paragraph (5) to read as follows: ``(5) Authorization of appropriations.--There is authorized to be appropri