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    <item congress="119" measure-type="s" measure-number="254" measure-id="id119s254" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2025-01-24" update-date="2025-06-04">
        <title>ARTIST Act</title>
        <summary summary-id="id119s254v00" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2025-06-04">
            <action-date>2025-01-24</action-date>
            <action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Alaska’s Right To Ivory Sales and Tradition Act or the ARTIST Act</strong></p><p>This bill prohibits states from imposing bans on marine mammal products produced by Alaska Natives.</p><p>Specifically, states may not prohibit the importation, sale, transfer, trade, barter, or possession of marine mammal ivory, marine mammal bone, or baleen legally produced by an Alaska Native as an authentic Alaska Native article of handicrafts and clothing.</p>]]></summary-text>
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