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Code · BILL · 119th Congress · H.R. 3773 (Introduced in House) — To amend the Stored Communications Act to include Tribal courts as courts of competent jurisdiction, to amend the Ind... · 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; any State or political subdivision thereof; or any Indian Tribe or 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 the first sentence and inserting the following: A governmental entity may require the disclosure by a provider of electronic communication service of the contents of a wire or electronic communication, that is in electronic storage in an electronic communications system for 180 days or less, only pursuant to a warrant issued by a court of competent jurisdiction— using the procedures described in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure; in the case of a State court, using State warrant procedures; in the case of a court-martial or other proceeding under chapter 47 of title 10 (the Uniform Code of Military Justice), under section 846 of that title, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the President; or in the case of a Tribal court, 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) ). ; in subsection (b)(1)— in subparagraph (A), by striking using the procedures described in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and all that follows through prescribed by the President) and inserting in accordance with subsection (a)(1) ; and in subparagraph (B)(i), by inserting , Tribal, after a Federal each place it appears; and in subsection (c)— in paragraph (1)(A), by striking using the procedures described in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and all that follows through prescribed by the President) and inserting in accordance with subsection (a)(1) ; and in paragraph (2), in the undesignated matter following subparagraph (F), by inserting , Tribal, after a Federal each place it appears. Section 2705(a)(1)(B) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting , Tribal, after a Federal each place it appears. 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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