Tribal Law and Order Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1924
Sponsor: Rep. Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Crime victims
Crimes against women
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Justice
Department of the Interior
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Evidence and witnesses
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal-Indian relations
Government information and archives
Indian lands and resources rights
Law enforcement administration and funding
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Tribal Law and Order Act of 2009 - Amends the Indian Law Enforcement Reform Act to make a variety of changes to increase Native American tribes' law enforcement powers and increase federal powers and responsibilities regarding crimes on Indian land, including: (1) allowing federal officials, with the consent of the tribe, to investigate offenses against tribal criminal laws; (2) providing technical assistance and training to tribal law enforcement officials regarding use of the National Criminal Information Center (NCIC) database; (3) requiring federal and local officials, when they decline to investigate crimes on Indian land, to report to Native officials and requiring such officials, when they decline to prosecute, to turn over evidence to Native officials; (4) establishing in the criminal division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) the Office of Indian Country Crime to develop, enforce, and administer federal criminal laws in Indian country; (5) authorizing, at the request of a tribe, concurrent federal-tribal jurisdiction; (6) authorizing grants to state, tribal, and local governments that enter into cooperative agreements, including agreements relating to mutual aid, hot pursuit of suspects, and cross-deputization; (7) requiring the Attorney General to allow tribal and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) law enforcement agencies to directly access and enter information into federal criminal information databases (under current law, such access is limited); and (8) increasing the criminal sentences tribal courts may impose.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2009-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, Energy and Commerce, and Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E880)
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House