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S. 3041 · Senate bill · 119th Congress
This bill authorizes the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) to assist with certain tribal law enforcement activities and allows tribal law enforcement agencies to participate in regional fugitive task forces.
Specifically, the bill authorizes the USMS, upon the request of an Indian tribe, to investigate tribal fugitive matters. The USMS may investigate tribal fugitive matters both within and outside the United States, as directed by the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Additionally, the USMS, upon the request of tribal law enforcement agencies, may assist these agencies in locating and recovering missing children.
The bill also allows tribal law enforcement agencies to participate in regional fugitive task forces. DOJ must consult with tribes when establishing new task forces. (The USMS oversees regional fugitive task forces. Currently, these task forces combine the efforts of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to locate and apprehend fugitives.)
This Act may be cited as the “Tribal Warrant Fairness Act”.
In this Act, the term Indian Tribe means any Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, community, component band, or component reservation individually identified (including parenthetically) on the most recent list published by the Secretary of the Interior under section 104 of the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 5131).
(a) U.S. Marshals Service.— Section 566(e)(1) of title 28, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (B), by inserting “including Tribal fugitive matters (on the request of an Indian Tribe, as defined in section 2 of the Tribal Warrant Fairness Act, as applicable),” after “matters,”; and
(2) in subparagraph (D), by inserting “Tribal,” after “local,”.
(b) Presidential Threat Protection Act of 2000.— Section 6 of the Presidential Threat Protection Act of 2000 (34 U.S.C. 41503) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)—
(A) by inserting “and Indian Tribes, as defined in section 2 of the Tribal Warrant Fairness Act” after “components”; and
(B) by striking “and local” and inserting “local, and Tribal”; and
(2) in subsection (c), by striking “Federal or State law” and inserting “Federal, State, or Tribal law”.