[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 986 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 986

  To clarify the rights of Indians and Indian tribes on Indian lands 
                under the National Labor Relations Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 9, 2017

 Mr. Rokita (for himself, Mr. Cole, Mrs. Noem, Ms. Moore, Ms. Michelle 
Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, Mr. Peterson, Mr. Mullin, Ms. Cheney, Mr. 
   LaMalfa, and Mr. Gosar) introduced the following bill; which was 
        referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To clarify the rights of Indians and Indian tribes on Indian lands 
                under the National Labor Relations Act.

    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 ``Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act of 
2017''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF EMPLOYER.

    Section 2 of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 152) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2), by inserting ``or any Indian tribe, 
        or any enterprise or institution owned and operated by an 
        Indian tribe and located on its Indian lands,'' after 
        ``subdivision thereof,''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(15) The term `Indian tribe' means any Indian tribe, band, 
nation, pueblo, or other organized group or community which is 
recognized as eligible for the special programs and services provided 
by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians.
    ``(16) The term `Indian' means any individual who is a member of an 
Indian tribe.
    ``(17) The term `Indian lands' means--
            ``(A) all lands within the limits of any Indian 
        reservation;
            ``(B) any lands title to which is either held in trust by 
        the United States for the benefit of any Indian tribe or 
        individual or held by any Indian tribe or individual subject to 
        restriction by the United States against alienation; and
            ``(C) any lands in the State of Oklahoma that are within 
        the boundaries of a former reservation (as defined by the 
        Secretary of the Interior) of a federally recognized Indian 
        tribe.''.
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