A bill to provide for business development and trade promotion for native Americans,and for other purposes.
Provides for: (1) financial and technical assistance and administrative services for business development and legal and regulatory compliance to Indian tribes, organizations, and businesses (eligible entities); and (2) other assistance to enhance the economies of Indian tribes.
Bars assistance for activities related to gaming activities on Indian lands.
Requires the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Director, to carry out a Native American export and trade promotion program.
Provides for technical assistance and administrative services to eligible entities for: (1) identifying and entering appropriate markets for Indian goods and services; (2) complying with foreign or domestic laws and practices with respect to financial institutions with respect to exports and imports of such goods and services; and (3) entering into financial arrangements to provide for such exporting and importing.
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director, to conduct a Native American tourism program to facilitate tourism demonstration projects by Indian tribes on a tribal, intertribal, or regional basis. Authorizes grants to, or other arrangements with, Indian tribes and organizations or other tribal entities to carry out such program.
Requires a demonstration project to be conducted for: (1) Indians of the Four Corners area in a specified area between Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico; (2) Indians of the area known as the Great Northwest; (3) the Oklahoma Indians in Oklahoma; (4) Indians of the Great Plains area; and (5) Alaska Natives in Alaska. Provides for financial and technical assistance and administrative services for feasibility studies, market analyses, participation in tourism and trade missions, and related activities to participants selected to carry out tourism development projects.
Provides for: (1) priority consideration and expediting of processing of applications involving the establishment of foreign-trade zones on Indian lands or the establishment of ports of entry necessary to permit the establishment of such zones; and (2) approval of such applications, to the maximum extent practicable.
Authorizes appropriations.
Became Public Law No: 106-464.
Introduced in Senate
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1422-1423)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 106-63.
Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported to Senate by Senator Campbell with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 106-149.
Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported to Senate by Senator Campbell with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 106-149.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 269.
The committee substitute agreed to by Unanimous Consent.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S10956-10958)
Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S10956-10958)
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