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Introduced
09/29/2020
09/29/2020
In Committee
09/29/2020
09/29/2020
Crossed Over
Passed
Dead
12/31/2020
12/31/2020
Introduced Session
116th Congress
Bill Summary
To establish the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policy in the United States, and for other purposes. This bill establishes the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policy in the United States and sets forth its powers, duties, and membership. Among other activities, the commission must study the impacts and ongoing effects of the Indian Boarding School Policy (a federal policy under which American Indian and Alaska Native children were forcibly removed from their family homes and placed in boarding schools) and make recommendations to discontinue the removal of American Indian and Alaska Native children from their families and tribal communities by state social service departments, foster care agencies, and adoption agencies.
AI Summary
This bill establishes the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policy in the United States. The commission will investigate the impacts and ongoing effects of the historical Indian Boarding School Policy, under which American Indian and Alaska Native children were forcibly removed from their families and communities and placed in federally-funded boarding schools to be assimilated into white American culture. The commission will document the cultural genocide and human rights violations that occurred at these boarding schools, and make recommendations to address the historical and intergenerational trauma inflicted on Native communities, including ways to stop the continued removal of Native children from their families by state social services, foster care, and adoption agencies.
Committee Categories
Education
Sponsors (18)
Debra Haaland (D)*,
Suzanne Bonamici (D),
Tom Cole (R),
Sharice Davids (D),
Susan Davis (D),
Anna Eshoo (D),
Ruben Gallego (D),
Denny Heck (D),
Kendra Horn (D),
Jared Huffman (D),
Derek Kilmer (D),
Ann Kirkpatrick (D),
Ben Ray Luján (D),
Betty McCollum (D),
Markwayne Mullin (R),
Tom O'Halleran (D),
Chellie Pingree (D),
Jamie Raskin (D),
Last Action
Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. (on 09/29/2020)
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| Document Type | Source Location |
|---|---|
| State Bill Page | https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/8420/all-info |
| BillText | https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr8420/BILLS-116hr8420ih.pdf |
| Bill | https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr8420/BILLS-116hr8420ih.pdf.pdf |
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