Dingell–Johnson Act

That's something, one of the reasons that I selected Rob McCulley as my running mate, which was after that, that Portage County event was much long after was, was his long record in our legislature.

But one of the aspects of his record that I love was his fighting for smart usage of the Pittman-Robertson Act money that Ohio benefits from, the Dingell-Johnson dollars that flow to our state to invest in public lands where people are actually able to preserve an important part of our heritage, an important part of our way of life.

He has a great legislative record, but I put that as one of his positive legislative accomplishments in fighting for that.

I stand for the same.

Most people haven't really talked about this a whole lot, but President Trump in his first term, and he's done a little bit of this in the second term, basically he came with a win-win approach to public lands.

Yep.

He passed the Great American Outdoor Act, and then the other, there was a Dingell-Johnson bill as well.

Right.

Missouri, it's the Landowner Community Assistance Program.

So, you know, these tend to be programs that get the majority of their funding from the Pittman-Robertson Act or the Dingell-Johnson Act, which collectively we tend to call the Fish and Wildlife Restoration Fund.

Yeah, where does that money come from?

Yeah, so that's that excise money that we've talked about a few times.

Missouri, it's the Landowner and Community Assistance Program.

Um, so, you know, these, these tend to be programs that get the majority of their funding from the, the Pittman-Robertson Act or the Dingell-Johnson Act, uh, which collectively we tend to call the Fish and Wildlife Restoration Fund.

Yeah, where does that money come from?

Yeah, so that's, that's that excise money that we've talked about a few times.

Remember what we talked about.

The Dingell-Johnson funds.

You buying... boats and fishing gear and tackle and all that attacks it goes back towards fishing the sfr the sport fish restoration funds

yep

Yeah, I mean, there's several th- throughout, uh, time that, that really set Florida apart, I think, from other places in the country and secures, uh, wildlife conservation here.

When you look across other states, you know, you typically think of Pittman-Robertson or Dingell-Johnson federal funding, that 11% excise tax on firearms, ammunition, fishing gear, that really funds and fuels conservation across the country.

And, and we are a big state that benefits greatly from that.

But because we have unique resources and unique challenges being a big state, we've had a lot of, uh, legislative and, and voter approved amendments throughout the years.

Okay.

52% is the federal grant money, is the PR funds, Pittman-Robertson funds, on the hunting side, and then Dingell-Johnson and Wallop-Breaux on the fishing and boating side.

Has the same, same excise tax program.

Uh, and those are applied by, uh...