Tribal Police Department Parity Act

Subjects: Native Americans


<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1562 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1562

 To ensure that Federal laws that enable Federal, State, and local law 
  enforcement agencies to access firearms apply equally to Tribal law 
                         enforcement agencies.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 11, 2023

Mr. Mullin (for himself and Mr. Cramer) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
 To ensure that Federal laws that enable Federal, State, and local law 
  enforcement agencies to access firearms apply equally to Tribal law 
                         enforcement agencies.

    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 Police Department Parity 
Act''.

SEC. 2. TRIBAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ACCESS TO FIREARMS.

    (a) Amendments to Title 18, United States Code.--
            (1) Transfer and possession of post-1986 machineguns.--
        Section 922(o)(2)(A) of title 18, United States Code, is 
        amended--
                    (A) by striking ``or a State, or'' and inserting 
                ``, a State or''; and
                    (B) by inserting before ``; or'' the following: ``, 
                or an Indian Tribe (as defined in section 4 of the 
                Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act 
                (25 U.S.C. 5304)) or any department or agency 
                thereof''.
            (2) Transportation, shipment, receipt, possession, and 
        importation of firearms and ammunition.--Section 925(a)(1) of 
        title 18, United States Code, is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``or any State'' and inserting ``, 
                any State''; and
                    (B) by inserting before the period at the end the 
                following: ``, or any Indian Tribe (as defined in 
                section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and 
                Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304)) or any 
                department or agency thereof''.
    (b) Amendments to Internal Revenue Code of 1986.--
            (1) Transfer tax exemption.--Section 5853(a) of the 
        Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by inserting ``, 
        Indian Tribe (as defined in section 4 of the Indian Self-
        Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304))'' 
        after ``any State''.
            (2) Making tax exemption.--Section 5853(b) of such Code is 
        amended by inserting ``, Indian Tribe (as defined in section 4 
        of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act 
        (25 U.S.C. 5304))'' after ``any State''.
            (3) Effective date.--The amendments made by this subsection 
        shall apply to any firearm transferred or made after the date 
        of enactment of this Act.
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