H.R. 5564 · 114th Congress
National Parks for America's Children Act
- Stage
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Daniel Kildee
- Introduced
- 2016-06-22
- Latest action
- 2016-06-28 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
Summary
National Parks for America's Children Act
This bill directs the Department of the Interior, through the National Park Service, to create a program that helps to ensure that youths from urban areas have access to the National Parks.
The program shall include:
an advertising strategy aimed at urban youths and transportation programs to help ensure that they have better access to National Parks, partnerships with urban schools to teach basic outdoor skills and basic nature and biology, and a grant program that helps to ensure that urban youths can afford attendance and lodging fees at the National Parks.