Empowering Rural Economies Through Alaska Native Sustainable Arts and Handicrafts Act
- Last Action
- 4/8/2019
Actions
- 2019-04-08Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
- 2019-03-14Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
- 2019-03-14Introduced in House
- 2019-03-14Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2019-03-14 (00)
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.
Subjects
- Alaska
- Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
- Historical and cultural resources
- Mammals
- Trade restrictions
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