H.R. 1696

To amend the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act to allow the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo tribe to determine blood quantum requirement for membership in that Tribe.

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110th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 1696

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

July 31, 2007

Received

August 3, 2007

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs

AN ACT

To amend the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act to allow the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo tribe to determine blood quantum requirement for membership in that Tribe.

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Blood quantum requirement determined by tribe

Section 108(a)(2) of the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act (25 U.S.C. 1300g–7(2)) is amended by striking if the descendant and all that follows through the end of the paragraph and inserting if the descendant is enrolled by the tribe.

Passed the House of Representatives July 30, 2007.

Lorraine C. Miller,

Clerk.