Title: Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act of 2022
Policy area: Native Americans

Summary:
Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act of 2022
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.)

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3454 Placed on Calendar Senate (PCS)]

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                                                       Calendar No. 234
117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3454

  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 10, 2022

 Mr. Moran introduced the following bill; which was read the first time

                            January 18, 2022

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar

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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 
2022''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF EMPLOYER.

    (a) NLRA Amendment.--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.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--This Act and the amendments made by this Act 
shall take effect on the day after the date of enactment of this Act.
                                                       Calendar No. 234

117th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                                S. 3454

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

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

_______________________________________________________________________

                            January 18, 2022

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar