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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-324
TRIBAL LABOR SOVEREIGNTY ACT OF 2017
SEPTEMBER 25, 2017.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
Ms. Foxx, from the Committee on Education and the Workforce,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
MINORITY VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 986]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Education and the Workforce, to whom was
referred the bill (H.R. 986) to clarify the rights of Indians and In-
dian tribes on Indian lands under the National Labor Relations
Act, 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 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 sta-
tus 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
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