A bill to protect Native children and promote public safety in Indian country.

United States115th CongressS-2233Senate
Updated: Dec 14, 2017

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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Timeline

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HR-6728: To protect Native children and promote public safety in Indian country.

Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.

  1. Introduced in Senate

  2. Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

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