[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9391 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9391

 To provide that identification documents issued by tribal governments 
are generally accorded the same treatment under Federal criminal law as 
identification documents issued by the Federal Government or by a State 
                          or local government.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 1, 2022

  Mr. Johnson of South Dakota (for himself, Mr. Cole, Mr. Bacon, Mr. 
Armstrong, Mr. Crenshaw, and Mr. Mullin) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide that identification documents issued by tribal governments 
are generally accorded the same treatment under Federal criminal law as 
identification documents issued by the Federal Government or by a State 
                          or local government.

    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 Firearm Access Act''.

SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENTS ISSUED BY TRIBAL 
              GOVERNMENTS.

    (a) In General.--Section 1028(d) of title 18, United States Code, 
is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (3), by inserting ``a tribal government,'' 
        before ``a sponsoring entity'';
            (2) in paragraph (11), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (3) in paragraph (12), by striking the period and inserting 
        ``; and''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(13) the term `tribal government' means the recognized 
        governing body of any Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, 
        nation, pueblo, village, community, component band, or 
        component reservation, individually identified (including 
        parenthetically) in the list published most recently as of the 
        date of the enactment of this paragraph pursuant to section 104 
        of the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect on the date that is 90 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act.
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