[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2017 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2017

    To prohibit regulations that classify, enhance, or diminish the 
    privileges and immunities of an Indian tribe relative to other 
      federally recognized Indian tribes, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               April 14 (legislative day, April 11), 1994

Mr. McCain (for himself and Mr. Inouye) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
    To prohibit regulations that classify, enhance, or diminish the 
    privileges and immunities of an Indian tribe relative to other 
      federally recognized Indian tribes, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 16 of the 
Act of June 18, 1934 (25 U.S.C. 476) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new subsections:
    ``(f) Privileges and Immunities of Indian Tribes; Prohibition on 
New Regulations.--Departments or agencies of the United States shall 
not promulgate any regulation or make any decision or determination 
pursuant to the Act of June 18, 1934, as amended or any other Act of 
Congress with respect to a federally recognized Indian tribe that 
classifies, enhances, or diminishes the privileges and immunities 
available to the Indian tribe relative to other federally recognized 
tribes by virtue of their status as Indian tribes.
    ``(g) Privileges and Immunities of Indian Tribes; Existing 
Regulations.--Any regulation or administrative decision or 
determination of a department or agency of the United States that is in 
existence or effect on the date of enactment of this Act and that 
classifies, enhances, or diminishes the privileges and immunities 
available to a federally recognized Indian tribe relative to the 
privileges and immunities available to other federally recognized 
tribes by virtue of their status as Indian tribes shall have no force 
or effect.''.

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