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Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policy Act
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Introduced
September 29, 2020
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September 29, 2020
Primary Sponsor
Elizabeth WarrenDemocratic(MA)
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Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policy Act 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.
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2020 · third_quarter · Education
Ongoing discussions regarding proposed amendments to the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act and the Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities Assistance Act. Proposed changes include changes to the TCU portion of the HEA Title III program (section 316), authorization of a new TCU Native Language program, new TCU Graduate Level program, and modernization of the TCU facilities report and program (TCCUAA update). AIHEC provided extensive feedback on TCU provisions within several COVID relief aid packages: CARES Act (HR 748), HEROES Act (HR 6800), Coronavirus Child Care and Education Relief Act (S. 4112), Health, Economic Assistance, Liability Protections, and School Act (HEALS), Delivering Immediate Relief to America's Families, Schools, Small Businesses Act (S. 4775), and Heroes 2.0. Feedback also provided on Bridging the Tribal Digital Divide Act of 2020 (S. 3264), Supporting Connectivity for Higher Education Students in Need Act (S. 3701), Native VetSuccess at Tribal Colleges and Universities Pilot Program Act (HR 8216), Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policy Act (S. 4752/HR 8420).
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
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Client expense: $40,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Education, Dept of, Energy, Dept of, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Interior, Dept of (DOI), Natl Science Foundation (NSF), SENATE
2020 · third_quarter · Indian/Native American Affairs
Ongoing discussion to expand understanding and recognition of tribal sovereignty and the federal trust responsibility to federal recognized tribes and the tribal colleges they charter. Discussions included efforts to maintain existing programs and development of new programs to increase capacity at TCUs to better serve students and tribal communities. New programs proposed: TCU Native Language program, TCU Graduate Level program, and Modernization of TCU facilities report and program. AIHEC provided extensive feedback on TCU provisions within several COVID relief aid packages: CARES Act (HR 748), HEROES Act (HR 6800), Coronavirus Child Care and Education Relief Act (S. 4112), Health, Economic Assistance, Liability Protections, and School Act (HEALS), Delivering Immediate Relief to America's Families, Schools, Small Businesses Act (S. 4775), and Heroes 2.0. Feedback also provided on Bridging the Tribal Digital Divide Act of 2020 (S. 3264), Supporting Connectivity for Higher Education Students in Need Act (S. 3701), Native VetSuccess at Tribal Colleges and Universities Pilot Program Act (HR 8216), Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policy Act (S. 4752/HR 8420).
Client expense: $40,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Education, Dept of, Energy, Dept of, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Interior, Dept of (DOI), Natl Science Foundation (NSF), SENATE