Congress 116 - HR 2438 - Not Invisible Act of 2020

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Advisory bodies Congressional oversight Crime prevention Crime victims Crimes against children Crimes against women Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation Criminal justice information and records Department of Justice Department of the Interior Employee hiring Executive agency funding and structure Federal-Indian relations Government information and archives Human trafficking Indian social and development programs Intergovernmental relations Law enforcement administration and funding Law enforcement officers Missing persons Native Americans State and local government operations Violent crime

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Not Invisible Act of 2020

This bill increases the coordination of efforts to reduce violent crime within Indian lands and against Indians.

Specifically, the Department of the Interior must designate an official within the Bureau of Indian Affairs to coordinate prevention efforts, grants, and programs related to missing Indians and the murder and human trafficking of Indians.

In addition, Interior and the Department of Justice (DOJ) must (1) establish a joint commission on violent crime within Indian lands and against Indians, and (2) submit a written response to the recommendations developed by the joint commission.

The joint commission must develop and make publicly available recommendations to Interior and DOJ on actions to combat violent crime against Indians and within Indian lands, including recommendations for identifying, reporting, and responding to instances of missing persons, murder, and human trafficking.

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Sep 16, 2020

Committee on Natural Resources discharged.
Sep 16, 2020

Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 116-509, Part I.
Sep 16, 2020

Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 409.
Mar 11, 2020

Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Mar 11, 2020

Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Mar 10, 2020

Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Discharged.
May 31, 2019

Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
May 10, 2019

Referred to the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States.
May 1, 2019

Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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.
May 1, 2019

Introduced in House

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