S.Amdt. 4678

SA 4678. Mr. REID (for himself and Mr. Heller) submitted an amendment
intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2943, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2017 for military activities of the
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel
strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle I of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1097. REPORT.

(a) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Class iii gaming.--The term ``class III gaming'' has
the meaning given the term in section 4 of the Indian Gaming
Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2703).
(2) Exclusivity clause.--The term ``exclusivity clause''
means a provision that requires a Tribe to pay to a State a
percentage of gross gaming revenue only if the State does not
change the law of the State to permit commercial gaming
activity by any other person.
(b) Report.--Not later than 120 calendar days after the
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior
shall submit to the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate
and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of
Representatives a report on--
(1) the number of Tribal-State compacts, and amendments to
such compacts, that contain exclusivity clauses that may be
impacted by a determination of the Secretary of the Interior
to approve a compact or compact amendment that could have the
effect of advancing commercial gaming activity on non-Indian
land where such activity is owned or operated, directly or
indirectly, by 1 or more Indian tribe; and
(2) the extent to which gaming regulations and laws in
States where class III gaming occurs on Indian land pursuant
to a Tribal-State compact, approved under the Indian Gaming
Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.), meets or exceeds
standards established in that Act or regulations issued by
the National Indian Gaming Commission.
(c) Consultation.--The Secretary of the Interior shall
consult with Indian tribes, State governments, and commercial
gaming enterprises before issuing the report required under
subsection (b).

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