[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2249 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2249

 To amend the Indian Tribal Judgment Funds Use or Distribution Act to 
extend a certain income tax exemption to the Grand Portage Band of Lake 
                       Superior Chippewa Indians.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 10, 2014

 Mr. Franken (for himself and Ms. Klobuchar) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Indian Tribal Judgment Funds Use or Distribution Act to 
extend a certain income tax exemption to the Grand Portage Band of Lake 
                       Superior Chippewa Indians.

    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 ``Grand Portage Band Per Capita 
Adjustment Act''.

SEC. 2. EQUAL TREATMENT OF CERTAIN PER CAPITA INCOME FOR PURPOSES OF 
              FEDERAL ASSISTANCE.

    Section 7(4) of the Indian Tribal Judgment Funds Use or 
Distribution Act (25 U.S.C. 1407(4)) is amended by striking ``pursuant 
to the agreements of such Band to voluntarily restrict tribal rights to 
hunt and fish in territory cede'' and inserting ``or the Grand Portage 
Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, or both, pursuant to the 
agreements of each band to voluntarily restrict tribal rights to hunt 
and fish in territory ceded''.
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