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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-953
TRIBAL RECOGNITION ACT OF 2018
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 3744]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 3744) to provide that an Indian group may receive Fed-
eral acknowledgment as an Indian tribe only by an Act of Con-
gress, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with
an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Tribal Recognition Act of 2018.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds as follows:
(1) Article I, section 8, clause 3 of the Constitution (commonly known as the
Indian Commerce Clause) gives Congress authority over Indian affairs.
(2) Such authority is plenary and exclusive.
(3) Such authority may not be exercised by the judicial branch or by the exec-
utive branch (except to the extent that such authority has been expressly dele-
gated to the executive branch by an Act of Congress).
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
As used in this Act:
(1) ASSISTANT SECRETARY.-The term Assistant Secretary means the Assist-
ant Secretary of Indian Affairs, or that officer's authorized representative.
(2) AUTONOMOUS.-The term autonomous means the exercise of political in-
fluence or authority independent of the control of any other Indian governing
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