To require officers and employees of the Department of Homeland Security to receive training with respect to tribes, and for other purposes.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 8742 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8742 To require officers and employees of the Department of Homeland Security to receive training with respect to tribes, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 12, 2026 Ms. Davids of Kansas (for herself, Mr. Bacon, Ms. Leger Fernandez, Mr. Schneider, Ms. Randall, and Ms. Stansbury) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To require officers and employees of the Department of Homeland Security to receive training with respect to tribes, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Respect Tribal IDs Act''. SEC. 2. DHS TRAINING STANDARDS. Section 287 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1357) is amended by adding at the end the following: ``(i)(1) Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall, in collaboration with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and in consultation with Indian tribes, develop training curricula for any officer or employee of the Department of Homeland Security on-- ``(A) appropriate protocol, as developed by the Secretary, for interacting with all enrolled members of Indian Tribes; ``(B) how to identify a Native American tribal document; ``(C) accepting a Native American tribal document as proof of United States citizenship; ``(D) how to access examples of a Native American tribal document; and ``(E) the trust responsibility of the United States Government. ``(2) The curricula developed under paragraph (1) shall include-- ``(A) the contact information, names, locations, an