[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5262 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5262

  To amend the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to provide for community 
  approval before Indian class III gaming operations may take effect.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 7, 1994

  Mr. Everett (for himself and Mr. Browder) introduced the following 
     bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to provide for community 
  approval before Indian class III gaming operations may take effect.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. COMMUNITY APPROVAL OF TRIBAL-STATE COMPACTS.

    Section 11(d) of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 
2710(d)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(10)(A) A Tribal-State compact may not take effect until after--
            ``(i) the elected governing body and elected executive 
        officials (including the city council, county commissioner, 
        mayor, and similar positions) in the political jurisdiction in 
        which a class III gaming activity under the compact is to occur 
        have approved the compact; and
            ``(ii) the compact is then approved by majority vote in a 
        referendum held in each such political subdivision in the first 
        general election (with respect to which the filing deadline has 
        not passed) occurring after the date on which the compact is 
        approved under clause (i).
    ``(B) For the purposes of subparagraph (A), a Tribal-State compact 
includes a compact approved under paragraph (8) or consented to under 
paragraph (7)(B)(vi), and the procedures for a class III gaming 
activity prescribed under paragraph (7)(B)(vii).''.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this Act shall apply to any Tribal-State 
compact which has not been entered into under the Indian Gaming 
Regulatory Act before January 1, 1994.
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