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Empowering Rural Economies Through Alaska Native Sustainable Arts and Handicrafts Act

Introduced: March 14, 2019 Introduced by: Sullivan, Dan Republican · Alaska See on congress.gov
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Sep 16, 2020
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Mar 14, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Mar 14, 2019
Introduced in Senate
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Empowering Rural Economies Through Alaska Native Sustainable Arts and Handicrafts Act

This bill prohibits states from imposing bans on marine mammal and fossilized ivory products produced by Alaska Natives.

Specifically, states may not prohibit (1) the importation, sale, transfer, trade, barter, or possession of mammoth, mastodon, or walrus ivory, marine mammal bones, teeth, or baleen legally produced by an Alaska Native as an authentic native article of handicrafts and clothing; or (2) the importation, sale, transfer, trade, or possession of fossilized ivory.

What's happening now September 16, 2020

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.

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