Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policy Act
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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.
What just happenedSep 29, 2020
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in SenateSep 29, 2020
- Sep 29, 2020IntroReferral
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
Indian Affairs Committee - Sep 29, 2020IntroReferral10000
Introduced in Senate