[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1696 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

  1st Session
                                H. R. 1696


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 31, 2007

                                Received

                             August 3, 2007

       Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs

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                                 AN ACT


 
  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''.

            Passed the House of Representatives July 30, 2007.

            Attest:

                                            LORRAINE C. MILLER,

                                                                 Clerk.