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Code · BILL · 118th Congress · S. 4842 (Introduced in Senate) — To amend the Stored Communications Act to include Tribal courts as courts of competent jurisdiction. · Sec. 2

Sec. 2. Tribal courts as courts of competent jurisdiction under Stored Communications Act

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Section 2711 of title 18, United States Code, is amended— in paragraph (3)— in subparagraph (B), by striking or at the end; by redesignating subparagraph
(C)as subparagraph (D); and by inserting after subparagraph
(B)the following: a Tribal court; or ; and by striking paragraph
(4)and inserting the following: the term governmental entity means a department or agency of— the United States; or any State or Indian Tribe, or any political subdivision thereof; 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 ); and the term Tribal court means a court of general criminal jurisdiction of an Indian Tribe authorized by the law of that Indian Tribe to issue search warrants. . Section 2703 of title 18, United States Code, is amended— in subsection (a), by striking State warrant procedures and and inserting the following: State warrant procedures, or, in the case of a Tribal court, issued using the warrant procedures described in section 202(a)(2) of ; Public Law 90–284 (commonly known as the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 ) ( 25 U.S.C. 1302(a)(2) ), and in subsection (b)(1)— in subparagraph (A), by striking State warrant procedures and and inserting the following: State warrant procedures, or, in the case of a Tribal court, issued using the warrant procedures described in section 202(a)(2) of ; and Public Law 90–284 (commonly known as the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 ) ( 25 U.S.C. 1302(a)(2) ), and in subparagraph (B)(i), by inserting , Tribal, after by a Federal ; and in subsection (c)— in paragraph (1)(A), by striking State warrant procedures and and inserting the following: State warrant procedures, or, in the case of a Tribal court, issued using the warrant procedures described in section 202(a)(2) of ; and Public Law 90–284 (commonly known as the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 ) ( 25 U.S.C. 1302(a)(2) ), and in paragraph (2), in the undesignated matter following subparagraph (F), by inserting , Tribal, after by a Federal . Section 2705(a)(1)(B) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting , Tribal, after by a Federal . Section 2707(g) of title 18, United States Code, is amended, in the second sentence, by inserting Tribal, after State, . Section 2710 of title 18, United States Code, is amended— in subsection (b)(2)(C), by inserting after an equivalent State warrant, the following: a warrant issued by a Tribal court using the warrant procedures described in section 202(a)(2) of ; and Public Law 90–284 (commonly known as the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 ) ( 25 U.S.C. 1302(a)(2) ), in subsection (d), by striking or a political subdivision of a State and inserting a political subdivision of a State, or an Indian Tribe .
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