US Congress House Bill 8420 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-2)
Status: Introduced on September 29 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-09-29 - 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.
Pending: House Education and Labor Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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.

Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policy Act

Rep. Debra Haaland [D-NM]	Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]	Rep. Denny Heck [D-WA]	Rep. Kendra Horn [D-OK]
Sen. Markwayne Mullin [R-OK]	Rep. Susan Davis [D-CA]	Rep. Suzanne Bonamici [D-OR]	Rep. Sharice Davids [D-KS]
Rep. Tom O'Halleran [D-AZ]	Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick [D-AZ]	Rep. Tom Cole [R-OK]	Rep. Ruben Gallego [D-AZ]
Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]	Sen. Ben Lujan [D-NM]	Rep. Jamie Raskin [D-MD]	Rep. Anna Eshoo [D-CA]
Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]	Rep. Derek Kilmer [D-WA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-09-29	House	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.
2020-09-29	House	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.
2020-09-29	House	Introduced in House

SB4752 (Same As) 2020-09-29 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/8420/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr8420/BILLS-116hr8420ih.pdf