Empowering Rural Economies Through Alaska Native Sustainable Arts and Handicrafts Act
United States116th CongressHR-1806House of Representatives
Updated: Apr 8, 2019
Summary
Empowering Rural Economies Through Alaska Native Sustainable Arts and Handicrafts Act This bill prohibits states from imposing bans on marine mammal and fossilized ivory products produced by Alaska Natives. Specifically, states may not prohibit (1) the importation, sale, transfer, trade, barter, or possession of mammoth, mastodon, or walrus ivory, marine mammal bones, teeth, or baleen legally produced by an Alaska Native as an authentic native article of handicrafts and clothing; or (2) the importation, sale, transfer, trade, or possession of fossilized ivory.
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Timeline
Latest companion bill action
S-804: Empowering Rural Economies Through Alaska Native Sustainable Arts and Handicrafts ActCommittee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
House of Representatives
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
House of Representatives
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