[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4033 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4033

  To amend the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to provide for community 
  approval before Indian class III gaming operations may take effect.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 15, 2012

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to provide for community 
  approval before Indian class III gaming operations may take effect.

    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 ``Giving Local Communities a Voice in 
Tribal Gaming Act''.

SEC. 2. COMMUNITY APPROVAL OF TRIBAL-STATE COMPACTS.

    Section 11(d) of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 
2710(d)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(10)(A) No Class III gaming activities may commence, 
        irrespective of an approved Tribal-State Compact, unless the 
        elected governing body and elected executive officials of each 
        county, city, or other general purpose political subdivision in 
        which a class III gaming activity under the Tribal-State 
        Compact is to occur have approved the Class III gaming 
        facility.
            ``(B) The manner in which a Class III gaming facility is 
        approved under subparagraph (A) shall be determined by each 
        political subdivision.
            ``(C) Each political subdivision shall have 120 days after 
        the date that a Tribal-State Compact is approved by the 
        Department of Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs and National 
        Indian Gaming Commission or the site of a class III gaming 
        facility is identified, whichever comes later, to raise 
        objection.
            ``(D) For the purposes of subparagraph (A), a Tribal-State 
        Compact includes a compact approved under paragraph (8) or 
        consented to under paragraph (7)(B)(vi), and the procedures for 
        a class III gaming activity prescribed under paragraph 
        (7)(B)(vii).''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this Act shall apply to any Tribal-State 
compact that has not been entered into under the Indian Gaming 
Regulatory Act before January 1, 2011.
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