[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2638 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2638

To amend the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to prohibit the Secretary of 
 the Interior from taking land into trust for Indian tribes for gaming 
       purposes under certain conditions, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 29, 1999

  Mr. Blunt (for himself, Ms. Danner, Mr. Skelton, Mrs. Emerson, Mr. 
   Talent, Ms. McCarthy of Missouri, and Mr. Hulshof) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to prohibit the Secretary of 
 the Interior from taking land into trust for Indian tribes for gaming 
       purposes under certain conditions, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Gaming Clarification Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. LAND-BASED GAMING CLARIFICATION.

    The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.) is 
amended--
            (1) in section 11(d)(1)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``, and'' and 
                inserting a semicolon;
                    (B) in subparagraph (C), by striking the period and 
                inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(D) when conducted on trust land located in the State of 
        Missouri, conducted in accordance with any geographic 
        limitation placed by the Missouri State Constitution.''
            (2) in section 20(b), by adding at the end the following:
    ``(4) When the Missouri State Constitution authorizes the general 
assembly of the State to permit, only upon the Mississippi River and 
the Missouri River, lotteries, gift enterprises, and games of chance to 
be conducted on excursion gambling boats and floating facilities, the 
Secretary shall not--
            ``(A) take land into trust for an Indian tribe in the State 
        for class II or class III gaming of any kind for any purpose; 
        or
            ``(B) approve class II or class III gaming on lands taken 
        into trust in the State as described above.''.
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