[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5564 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5564

   To require that the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the 
National Park Service, create a program to help ensure that youth from 
   urban areas have access to National Parks, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 22, 2016

  Mr. Kildee introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require that the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the 
National Park Service, create a program to help ensure that youth from 
   urban areas have access to National Parks, 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 ``National Parks for America's 
Children Act''.

SEC. 2. ACCESS TO NATIONAL PARKS FOR URBAN YOUTH.

    The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the National Park 
Service, shall create a program to help ensure that youth from urban 
areas have access to National Parks. The program shall include--
            (1) an advertising strategy aimed at urban youths;
            (2) transportation programs to help ensure urban youth have 
        better access to National Parks;
            (3) partnerships with urban schools to teach basic outdoor 
        skills and basic nature and biology; and
            (4) a grant program to help ensure that urban youth can 
        afford the attendance and lodging fees at National Parks.
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