Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act
Summary
Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act This bill establishes the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the United States and sets forth its powers, duties, and membership. Among other duties, the commission must investigate the impacts and ongoing effects of the Indian Boarding School Policies (federal policies under which American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children were forcibly removed from their family homes and placed in boarding schools). Further, the commission must develop recommendations on ways to (1) protect unmarked graves and accompanying land protections; (2) support repatriation and identify the tribal nations from which children were taken; and (3) discontinue the removal of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children from their families and tribal communities by state social service departments, foster care agencies, and adoption agencies.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Sep 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Sep 30, 2021
Last action Dec 7, 2022
Floor votes
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
8
Key actions
4
Committee
6
Amendments
1
Dec 7, 2022
Lower · Passed
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 117-595, Part I.
lower
Jun 15, 2022
Introduced
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
lower
Jun 15, 2022
Lower · Passed
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
lower
Jun 15, 2022
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States Discharged.
lower
May 12, 2022
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
lower
Oct 3, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States.
lower
Sep 30, 2021
Committee
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.
lower
Sep 30, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 87 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Sharice Davids
DDemocratic
Co
Adam Smith
DDemocratic
Co
Adriano Espaillat
DDemocratic
Co
Al Green
DDemocratic
Co
Al Lawson, Jr.
DDemocratic
Co
Ann Kirkpatrick
DDemocratic
Co
Anna G. Eshoo
DDemocratic
Co
Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen
RRepublican
Co
Ayanna Pressley
DDemocratic
Co
Barbara Lee
DDemocratic
Co
Betty McCollum
DDemocratic
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