To protect Native children and promote public safety in Indian country.
Summary
Official Summary
Native Youth and Tribal Officer Protection Act
This bill extends tribal jurisdiction over certain crimes. Specifically, the bill extends tribal jurisdiction over:
- violence committed against a child by a caregiver;
- violence against law enforcement officers involved in preventing, investigating, arresting, or prosecuting a person for domestic violence, dating violence, or child violence;
- attempted dating violence or domestic violence; or
- threatened dating violence or domestic violence.
In addition, the bill reauthorizes through FY2022 grants to tribal governments to support exercising jurisdiction and conducting proceedings related to crimes of domestic violence, including the crimes added to tribal jurisdiction by this bill.
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S-2233: A bill to protect Native children and promote public safety in Indian country.Introduced in Senate
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Energy and Commerce, 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.
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Introduced in House
Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
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