Tribal Gaming Regulatory Compliance Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2564 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2564

To ensure all federally recognized Tribes that are eligible for gaming 
 in the United States are regulated under the Indian Gaming Regulatory 
                      Act, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 31, 2025

  Mr. Heinrich (for himself, Ms. Smith, and Mr. Lujan) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                             Indian Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To ensure all federally recognized Tribes that are eligible for gaming 
 in the United States are regulated under the Indian Gaming Regulatory 
                      Act, 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 ``Tribal Gaming Regulatory Compliance 
Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) In 1987, the Supreme Court ruled in California v. 
        Cabazon Band of Mission Indians that if California regulated, 
        rather than prohibited, gaming in the State, then an Indian 
        Tribe could offer similar forms of gaming on its land.
            (2) In response to the Cabazon decision, the Indian Gaming 
        Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.) was enacted, which has 
        since supported and promoted Tribal economic development and 
        self-sufficiency and continues to provide a regulatory 
        structure for gaming on Tribal lands.
            (3) Over 200 Indian Tribes in 28 States are currently 
        regulated under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.
            (4) On June 15, 2022, the Supreme Court ruled that the 
        Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes 
        of Texas Restoration Act (Public Law 100-89; 101 Stat. 666) 
        allows the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and the Alabama-Coushatta 
        Tribe to offer, on Tribal lands, gaming activities that are not 
        fully prohibited by Texas law and without regard to any Texas 
        regulations over such gaming activities.
            (5) As a result of the Supreme Court decision, the Ysleta 
        del Sur Pueblo and the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe are the only two 
        Indian Tribes in the United States that have overlapping 
        regulatory language governing their gaming activities (the 
        Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.) and the 
        Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes 
        of Texas Restoration Act (Public Law 100-89; 101 Stat. 666)).
            (6) This Act will eliminate any redundant regulatory 
        language and ensure the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and the Alabama-
        Coushatta Tribe are regulated in the same form and manner as 
        all other gaming by Indian Tribes in the United States.

SEC. 3. AMENDMENT.

    The Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes 
of Texas Restoration Act (Public Law 100-89; 101 Stat. 666) is 
amended--
            (1) by inserting after section 2 the following:

``SEC. 3. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.

    ``This Act shall be construed to ensure the full applicability of 
the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.) to gaming 
activities on Indian lands of the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Indian 
lands of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe.'';
            (2) by striking section 107; and
            (3) by striking section 207.
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