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Tribal Police Department Parity Act
To ensure that Federal laws that enable Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies to access firearms apply equally to Tribal law enforcement agencies.
Summary
This bill amends federal firearms laws to extend the same access and exemptions to Tribal law enforcement agencies that currently apply to Federal, State, and local law enforcement. Specifically, it allows Indian Tribes and their departments or agencies to possess post-1986 machineguns and exempts them from federal firearms transfer and making taxes under the Internal Revenue Code. The bill defines Indian Tribe according to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act and makes these amendments effective for firearms transferred or made after the bill's enactment.
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Sponsor (1)
3 cosponsors
- Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT] (R-MT)
- Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] (R-IA)
- Sen. Hoeven, John [R-ND] (R-ND)
Actions (2)
- Feb 26, 2026 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. · senate
- Feb 26, 2026 Introduced in Senate
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Full text
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
February 26, 2026
Mr. Mullin (for himself, Mr. Daines, Mr. Hoeven, and Mr. Grassley) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance
A BILL
To ensure that Federal laws that enable Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies to access firearms apply equally to Tribal law enforcement agencies.
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 “Tribal Police Department Parity Act”.
SEC. 2. TRIBAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ACCESS TO FIREARMS.
(a) Amendments to Title 18, United States Code.—
(1) Transfer and possession of post-1986 machineguns.— Section 922(o)(2)(A) of title 18, United States Code, is amended—
(A) by striking “or a State, or” and inserting “, a State or”; and
(B) by inserting before “; or” the following: “, or an Indian Tribe (as defined in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304)) or any department or agency thereof”.
(2) Transportation, shipment, receipt, possession, and importation of firearms and ammunition.—Section 925(a)(1) of such title is amended—
(A) by striking “or any State” and inserting “, any State”; and
(B) by inserting before the period at the end the following: “, or any Indian Tribe (as defined in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304)) or any department or agency thereof”.
(b) Amendments to Internal Revenue Code of 1986.—
(1) Transfer tax exemption.—Section 5853(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by inserting “, Indian Tribe (as defined in section 4 of the Indian Self- Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304))” after “any State”.
(2) Making tax exemption.—Section 5853(b) of such Code is amended by inserting “, Indian Tribe (as defined in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304))” after “any State”.
(3) Effective date.—The amendments made by this subsection shall apply to any firearm transferred or made after the date of enactment of this Act. <all>
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