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    **** Bill No. ****
Introduced By *************
By Request of the *********


A Bill for an Act entitled: "An Act authorizing the trustees of a school district to provide a student hunter safety education or hunting activity release time program; providing for up to 3 days of release time for each student for the purpose of participating in a hunter safety education program or participating in a hunting activity with the permission of a parent or guardian and if accompanied by an adult licensed to hunt; and providing an immediate effective date."

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

NEW SECTION.  Section 1.  Student hunter safety or hunting activity release time program. (1)  The trustees of a district may provide for a hunter safety education or hunting activity release time program under which a pupil must, upon written request of the pupil's parent or guardian, be released from regular school attendance for a period not to exceed 3 days each year for the purpose of receiving hunter safety education or participating in a hunting activity with the permission of a parent or guardian and accompanied by an adult who is licensed to hunt.

 (2)  A school district may require evidence of participation in a licensed hunting activity or a hunter safety education program or require a report from a pupil participating in the program on the educational aspects of the hunting activity or hunter safety education program.
      
(2)  Any period for which a pupil is released under a hunter safety education program or for a hunting activity is part of the school day and week for purposes of 20-1-301, 20-1-302, 20-5-103, 20-9-311, and all other provisions of Title 20, and the release time may not adversely affect the pupil's attendance record.


NEW SECTION.  Section 2.  {standard} Codification instruction. [Section 1] is intended to be codified as an integral part of Title 20, chapter 1, part 3, and the provisions of Title 20, chapter 1, part 3, apply to [section 1].


NEW SECTION.  Section 3.  {standard} Effective date. [This act] is effective on passage and approval.


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