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117th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 9391
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
December 1, 2022Mr. Johnson of South Dakota (for himself, Mr. Cole, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Armstrong, Mr. Crenshaw, and Mr. Mullin) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To provide that identification documents issued by tribal governments are generally accorded the same treatment under Federal criminal law as identification documents issued by the Federal Government or by a State or local government.
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Short title
This Act may be cited as the Tribal Firearm Access Act.
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Treatment of identification documents issued by tribal governments
(a)
In general
Section 1028(d) of title 18, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in paragraph (3), by inserting a tribal government, before a sponsoring entity;
(2) in paragraph (11), by striking and at the end;
(3) in paragraph (12), by striking the period and inserting ; and; and
(4) by adding at the end the following:
(13) the term tribal government means the recognized governing body of any Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, community, component band, or component reservation, individually identified (including parenthetically) in the list published most recently as of the date of the enactment of this paragraph pursuant to section 104 of the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994.
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(b)
Effective date
The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date that is 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.