House Bill No. 314

Introduced By simpkins

A Bill for an Act entitled: An Act encouraging a school district to establish and maintain a firearms safety education course; and authorizing a district to use a course developed by the department of fish, wildlife, and parks, a law enforcement agency, or a firearms association.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Montana:

Section 1.  Firearms safety education. The trustees of a district are encouraged to establish and maintain a firearms safety education course. The trustees may adopt a course of instruction developed by the department of fish, wildlife, and parks, a law enforcement agency, or a firearms association as its firearms safety education course. Instructors from the department of fish, wildlife, and parks, a law enforcement agency, or a firearms association or a person recognized by the trustees as having expertise in firearms safety education may be used to provide the instruction.

Section 2.  Codification instruction. [Section 1] is intended to be codified as an integral part of Title 20, chapter 7, part 1, and the provisions of Title 20, chapter 7, part 1, apply to [section 1].

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