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This bill addresses a unique regulatory situation for two specific Native American tribes in Texas by ensuring they are regulated under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) in the same manner as other federally recognized tribes. The bill stems from a Supreme Court ruling on June 15, 2022, which determined that the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama-Coushatta Tribes could offer gaming activities on their lands based on Texas law, creating a regulatory anomaly. Currently, these two tribes have overlapping regulatory language governing their gaming activities, which this bill seeks to eliminate. The legislation will amend the existing Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act by inserting a new rule of construction that ensures full applicability of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to these tribes' gaming activities and by removing sections 107 and 207 of the original act. This change aims to standardize gaming regulation for these tribes, bringing them in line with the over 200 Indian Tribes in 28 states already regulated under IGRA, which was originally enacted in response to a 1987 Supreme Court decision to support tribal economic development and provide a consistent regulatory framework for gaming on tribal lands.

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