Title: Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act of 2017
Policy area: Native Americans

Summary:
Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act of 2017
This bill amends the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) to exclude Native American tribes and tribal enterprises and institutions on tribal land from requirements for employers under the 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.)

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 63 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 63

  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

                            January 9, 2017

Mr. Moran (for himself, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Daines, Mr. Flake, Mr. Gardner, 
 Mr. Johnson, Mr. Lankford, Mr. McCain, Mr. Thune, Mr. Wicker, and Mr. 
Risch) 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 
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 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 individual or held by any Indian tribe 
                or individual 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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