[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1709 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1709

  To allow members of federally recognized Tribes to use their Tribal 
   government identification documents in obtaining a firearm from a 
                  federally licensed firearms dealer.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 22, 2023

 Mr. Johnson of South Dakota (for himself, Mrs. Peltola, Mr. Cole, Mr. 
   Zinke, Mr. Armstrong, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Crenshaw, Mr. Newhouse, Mr. 
LaMalfa, Ms. Mace, Mrs. Bice, Mr. Lamborn, Mrs. Miller-Meeks, Mr. Mann, 
  and Mr. Smith of Nebraska) introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To allow members of federally recognized Tribes to use their Tribal 
   government identification documents in obtaining a firearm from a 
                  federally licensed firearms dealer.

    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. ALLOWING MEMBERS OF FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED TRIBES TO USE THEIR 
              TRIBAL GOVERNMENT IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENTS IN OBTAINING A 
              FIREARM FROM A FEDERALLY LICENSED FIREARMS DEALER.

    (a) In General.--Section 922(t)(1)(D) of title 18, United States 
Code, is amended by inserting ``, or a valid identification document 
issued by a Tribal government'' before the period.
    (b) Definition.--Section 921(a) of such title is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(38) 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(a) of the Federally Recognized Indian 
Tribe List Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 5131(a)).''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect on the date that is 90 days after the date of enactment of this 
Act.
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