Title: HOT-R Act
Policy area: Native Americans

Summary:
Honoring Our Trust Relationships Act of 2017 or the HOT-R Act
This bill amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to exempt specified American Indian and Alaska Native programs from sequestration, including programs administered by the Departments of the Interior, Education, Housing and Urban Development, Justice, and Health and Human Services. (Sequestration is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals.)

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 292 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 292

To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
       to exempt Alaska Native and American Indian programs from 
                             sequestration.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 4, 2017

Mr. Young of Alaska (for himself and Mr. Ruiz) introduced the following 
        bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Budget

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
       to exempt Alaska Native and American Indian programs from 
                             sequestration.

    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 ``Honoring Our Trust Relationships Act 
of 2017'' or the ``HOT-R Act''.

SEC. 2. AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE PROGRAMS.

    Section 255 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 905) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new subsection:
    ``(l) American Indian and Alaska Native Programs.--The following 
programs shall be exempt from reduction under any order issued under 
this part:
            ``All programs, regardless of their respective 
        administering agencies, that primarily serve Indians, Indian 
        tribes, or tribal organizations (as those terms are defined 
        under section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education 
        Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450b)).
            ``All programs administered by the Bureau of Indian 
        Affairs.
            ``All programs administered by the Bureau of Indian 
        Education.
            ``All programs administered by the Indian Health Service.
            ``All programs administered by the Office of Indian 
        Education of the Department of Education and all programs 
        authorized under title VI of the Elementary and Secondary 
        Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.).
            ``All programs administered by the Office of Native 
        American Programs of the Department of Housing and Urban 
        Development.
            ``All Tribal Justice and Safety programs administered by 
        the Department of Justice.
            ``All programs administered by the Administration for 
        Native Americans of the Department of Health and Human 
        Services.''.
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