[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1572 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1572

  To prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from promulgating certain 
           regulations relating to Indian gaming activities.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 27, 1998

     Mr. Bryan (for himself, Mr. Enzi, Mr. Reid, and Mr. Sessions) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                      Committee on Indian Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from promulgating certain 
           regulations relating to Indian gaming activities.

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

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION.

    Notwithstanding section 11(d)(7)(B)(vii) of the Indian Gaming 
Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2710(d)(7)(B)(vii)), the Secretary of the 
Interior may not promulgate--
            (1) as final regulations, the proposed regulations 
        published on January 22, 1998, at 63 Fed. Reg. 3289; or
            (2) any similar regulations to provide for procedures for 
        gaming activities under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 
        U.S.C. 2701 et seq.) in any case in which a State asserts a 
        defense of sovereign immunity to a lawsuit brought by an Indian 
        tribe in a Federal court under section 11(d)(7) of that Act (25 
        U.S.C. 2710(d)(7)) to compel the State to participate in 
        compact negotiations for class III gaming (as that term is 
        defined in section 4(8) of that Act (25 U.S.C. 2703(8))).
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