[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 104 (Thursday, June 20, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S4186]
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SA 816. Mr. MORAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2020 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
SEC. ____. DEFINITION OF EMPLOYER UNDER NATIONAL LABOR
RELATIONS ACT.
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
Indian or held by any Indian Tribe or Indian 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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