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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.

Introduced Feb 26, 2026

Latest action (Feb 26, 2026) Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Referred to
Finance Committee
Policy area
Native Americans
Issues
Criminal Justice

Summary
  • The bill amends federal firearms laws to allow Tribal law enforcement agencies to access and possess post-1986 machineguns, bringing them into parity with Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies.
  • The bill allows Tribal law enforcement agencies to transport, ship, receive, possess, and import firearms and ammunition under the same federal exemptions as other law enforcement agencies.
  • The bill allows Tribal law enforcement to receive federal tax exemptions for transferring and manufacturing firearms, effective for firearms transferred or made after the bill's enactment.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
3 cosponsors

Actions (2)
  1. Feb 26, 2026 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. · senate
  2. Feb 26, 2026 Introduced in Senate

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 7699 — Tribal Police Department Parity Act · Introduced Feb 25, 2026 · Cong. 119 92%
  • S 3946 — Tribal Firearm Access Act · Introduced Feb 26, 2026 · Cong. 119 83%
  • HR 7698 — Tribal Firearm Access Act · Introduced Feb 25, 2026 · Cong. 119 82%
  • HR 4712 — Parity for Tribal Law Enforcement Act · Introduced Jul 23, 2025 · Cong. 119 76%
  • S 2452 — Parity for Tribal Law Enforcement Act · Introduced Jul 24, 2025 · Cong. 119 75%
  • HR 3723 — Tribal Gaming Regulatory Compliance Act · Introduced Jun 4, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%

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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