[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 308 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 308

To prohibit gaming activities on certain Indian lands in Arizona until 
               the expiration of certain gaming compacts.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 13, 2015

 Mr. Franks of Arizona (for himself, Mrs. Kirkpatrick, Mr. Gosar, Mr. 
 Schweikert, and Mr. Salmon) introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit gaming activities on certain Indian lands in Arizona until 
               the expiration of certain gaming compacts.

    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 ``Keep the Promise Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds as follows:
            (1) In 2002, the voters in the State of Arizona approved 
        Proposition 202, the Indian Gaming Preservation and Self-
        Reliance Act.
            (2) To obtain the support of Arizona voters to approve 
        Proposition 202, the Indian tribes within Arizona agreed to 
        limit the number of casinos within the State and in particular 
        within the Phoenix metropolitan area.
            (3) This Act preserves the agreement made between the 
        tribes and the Arizona voters until the expiration of the 
        gaming compacts authorized by Proposition 202.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    For the purposes of this Act--
            (1) the terms ``Indian tribe'', ``class II gaming'', and 
        ``class III gaming'' have the meanings given those terms in 
        section 4 of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2703); 
        and
            (2) the term ``Phoenix metropolitan area'' means land 
        within Maricopa County and Pinal County, Arizona, that is north 
        of latitude 33 degrees, 5 minutes, 13 seconds north, east of 
        longitude 113 degrees, 20 minutes, 0 seconds west, and west of 
        longitude 110 degrees, 50 minutes, 45 seconds west, using the 
        NED 1983 State Plane Arizona FOPS 0202 coordinate system.

SEC. 4. GAMING CLARIFICATION.

    (a) Prohibition.--Class II gaming and class III gaming are 
prohibited on land within the Phoenix metropolitan area acquired by the 
Secretary of the Interior in trust for the benefit of an Indian tribe 
after April 9, 2013.
    (b) Expiration.--The prohibition in subsection (a) shall expire on 
January 1, 2027.
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