Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act of 2023

Subjects: Native Americans, Federal-Indian relations, Indian lands and resources rights, Labor-management relations, Minority employment

Summary:  <p><strong>Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act of </strong><b>2023</b></p> <p>This bill excludes Indian tribes and tribal enterprises and institutions on tribal land from requirements for employers under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). (Currently under the NLRA, employers may not engage in unfair labor practices and must allow employees to form unions, engage in collective bargaining, and take collective action.)</p>

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1328 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1328

  To clarify the rights of Indians and Indian Tribes on Indian lands 
                under the National Labor Relations Act.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 27, 2023

Mr. Moran (for himself, Mr. Daines, Mr. Risch, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Hoeven, 
    Mr. Rounds, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Thune, Mr. Mullin, and Mr. Lankford) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                      Committee on Indian Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To clarify the rights of Indians and Indian Tribes on Indian lands 
                under the National Labor Relations Act.

    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 Labor Sovereignty Act of 
2023''.

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 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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