A bill to amend the Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience Act to authorize grants to Indian tribes, tribal o...
Officially: “A bill to amend the Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience Act to authorize grants to Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and Native Hawaiian organizations, and for other purposes.” Read the full text
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1Native American tourism grant programs
This section would amend the Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience Act. It would renumber the Act's existing section 6 as section 7, and would insert a new section 6 titled "Native American tourism grant programs." Under the new section, the Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs may make grants to, and enter into agreements with, Indian tribes and tribal organizations to carry out the purposes of the Act described in the Act's section 2. The Director of the Office of Native Hawaiian Relations may make grants to, and enter into agreements with, Native Hawaiian organizations for those same purposes. The heads of other federal agencies, including the Secretaries of Commerce, Transportation, Agriculture, Health and Human Services, and Labor, may make grants under this authority to, and enter into agreements with, Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and Native Hawaiian organizations for those same purposes. The new section would authorize $35,000,000 to be appropriated to carry it out for fiscal years 2025 through 2029.
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1. Native American tourism grant programs The Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience Act ( 25 U.S.C. 4351 et seq. ) is amended— (1) by redesignating section 6 ( 25 U.S.C. 4355 ) as section 7; and (2) by inserting after section 5 ( 25 U.S.C. 4354 ) the following: 6. Native American tourism grant programs (a) Bureau of Indian Affairs program The Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs may make grants to and enter into agreements with Indian tribes and tribal organizations to carry out the purposes of this Act, as described in section 2. (b) Office of Native Hawaiian Relations The Director of the Office of Native Hawaiian Relations may make grants to and enter into agreements with Native Hawaiian organizations to carry out the purposes of this Act, as described in section 2. (c) Other Federal agencies The heads of other Federal agencies, including the Secretaries of Commerce, Transportation, Agriculture, Health and Human Services, and Labor, may make grants under this authority to and enter into agreements with Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and Native Hawaiian organizations to carry out the purposes of this Act, as described in section 2. (d) Authorization of appropriations There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $35,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2025 through 2029. .
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In the Senate.