[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2873 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2873

To ensure all federally recognized Tribes that are eligible for gaming 
 in the United States are regulated under the Indian Gaming Regulatory 
                      Act, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 26, 2023

  Mr. Luttrell (for himself, Mr. Babin, Ms. Escobar, Mr. Edwards, Mr. 
Veasey, Ms. Stansbury, and Mr. LaMalfa) introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To ensure all federally recognized Tribes that are eligible for gaming 
 in the United States are regulated under the Indian Gaming Regulatory 
                      Act, and for other purposes.

    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 Gaming Regulatory Compliance 
Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds as follows:
            (1) In 1987, the United States Supreme Court ruled in 
        California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians that if 
        California regulated rather than prohibited gaming in the 
        State, then a Tribe could offer similar forms of gaming on its 
        land.
            (2) In response to the Cabazon decision, the Indian Gaming 
        Regulatory Act (Public Law 100-497) was enacted, which has 
        since supported and promoted Tribal economic development and 
        self-sufficiency, and continues to provide a regulatory 
        structure for gaming on Tribal lands.
            (3) Over 200 Tribes in 28 States are currently regulated 
        under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.
            (4) On June 15, 2022, the United States Supreme Court ruled 
        that the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian 
        Tribes of Texas Restoration Act (Public Law 100-89; 101 Stat. 
        666) allows the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and the Alabama-Coushatta 
        Tribe to offer gaming activities on Tribal lands that are not 
        fully prohibited by Texas law and without regard to any Texas 
        regulations over such gaming activities.
            (5) The Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and the Alabama-Coushatta 
        Tribe are currently the only Tribes in the United States that 
        are eligible to game on Tribal lands, but not regulated under 
        the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.

SEC. 3. AMENDMENT.

    The Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes 
of Texas Restoration Act (Public Law 100-89; 101 Stat. 666 et seq.) is 
amended--
            (1) by inserting after section 2, the following:

``SEC. 3. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.

    ``This Act shall be construed to ensure the full applicability of 
the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.) to gaming 
activities on Indian lands of the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Indian 
lands of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe.'';
            (2) by striking section 107; and
            (3) by striking section 207.
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