[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2419 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2419

  To amend the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian 
Tribes of Texas Restoration Act to decrease the requisite blood quantum 
      required for membership in the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo tribe.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 5, 1997

  Mr. Reyes introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian 
Tribes of Texas Restoration Act to decrease the requisite blood quantum 
      required for membership in the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo tribe.

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

SECTION 1. BLOOD QUANTUM REQUIRED FOR TRIBAL MEMBERSHIP DECREASED.

    Section 108(a)(2)(i) of the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and 
Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act (25 U.S.C. 1300g-7) is 
amended by striking ``\1/8\'' and inserting ``\1/16\''.
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