[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1696 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1696

  To amend the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian 
  Tribes of Texas Restoration Act to allow the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo 
  tribe to determine blood quantum requirement for membership in that 
                                 Tribe.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 26, 2007

  Mr. Reyes introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural 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 allow the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo 
  tribe to determine blood quantum requirement for membership in that 
                                 Tribe.

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

SECTION 1. BLOOD QUANTUM REQUIREMENT DETERMINED BY TRIBE.

    Section 108(a)(2) of the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and 
Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act (25 U.S.C. 1300g-7(2)) 
is amended by striking ``if the descendant'' and all that follows 
through the end of the paragraph and inserting ``if the descendant is 
enrolled by the tribe''.
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