STATES Act of 2022

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9622 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9622

   To ensure that within a State, an action of a State agency taken 
pursuant to State law shall have effect notwithstanding any Federal law 
                to the contrary, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 20, 2022

 Mr. Gohmert introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To ensure that within a State, an action of a State agency taken 
pursuant to State law shall have effect notwithstanding any Federal law 
                to the contrary, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Sustaining Tenth Amendment Truths 
for Every State Act of 2022'' or as the ``STATES Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. STATE AGENCY PREFERENCE.

    (a) In General.--Within a State, an action of a State agency taken 
pursuant to State law shall have effect notwithstanding any Federal law 
to the contrary, if the Federal law purports to apply under authority 
to create such law that is not specifically, unequivocally, and 
explicitly delegated to the United States Government within the stated 
words of the United States Constitution.
    (b) State Defined.--In this Act, the term ``State'' means each of 
the several States, the District of Columbia, each commonwealth, 
territory or possession of the United States, and each federally 
recognized Indian Tribe.
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