Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Tribal Access to Electronic Evidence Act”.
Tribal Access to Electronic Evidence Act
A BILL
To amend the Stored Communications Act to include Tribal courts as courts of competent jurisdiction.
Sec. 2 Tribal courts as courts of competent jurisdiction under Stored Communications Act
in paragraph (3)—
in subparagraph (B), by striking “or” at the end;
by redesignating subparagraph (C) as subparagraph (D); and
by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following:
“(C) a Tribal court; or”
by striking paragraph (4) and inserting the following:
“(4) the term governmental entity means a department or agency of—
“(A) the United States; or
“(B) any State or Indian Tribe, or any political subdivision thereof;
“(5) the term Indian Tribe means any Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, community, component band, or component reservation individually identified (including parenthetically) on the most recent list published by the Secretary of the Interior under section 104 of the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 5131); and
“(6) the term Tribal court means a court of general criminal jurisdiction of an Indian Tribe authorized by the law of that Indian Tribe to issue search warrants.”
Required disclosure of customer communications or records— Section 2703 of title 18, United States Code, is amended—
in subsection (a), by striking “State warrant procedures and” and inserting the following: “State warrant procedures, or, in the case of a Tribal court, issued using the warrant procedures described in section 202(a)(2) of Public Law 90–284 (commonly known as the “Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968”) (25 U.S.C. 1302(a)(2)), and”;
in subsection (b)(1)—
in subparagraph (A), by striking “State warrant procedures and” and inserting the following: “State warrant procedures, or, in the case of a Tribal court, issued using the warrant procedures described in section 202(a)(2) of Public Law 90–284 (commonly known as the “Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968”) (25 U.S.C. 1302(a)(2)), and”; and
in subparagraph (B)(i), by inserting “, Tribal,” after “by a Federal”; and
in subsection (c)—
in paragraph (1)(A), by striking “State warrant procedures and” and inserting the following: “State warrant procedures, or, in the case of a Tribal court, issued using the warrant procedures described in section 202(a)(2) of Public Law 90–284 (commonly known as the “Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968”) (25 U.S.C. 1302(a)(2)), and”; and
in paragraph (2), in the undesignated matter following subparagraph (F), by inserting “, Tribal,” after “by a Federal”.
Delayed notice— Section 2705(a)(1)(B) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting “, Tribal,” after “by a Federal”.
Civil action— Section 2707(g) of title 18, United States Code, is amended, in the second sentence, by inserting “Tribal,” after “State,”.
Wrongful disclosure of video tape rental or sale records— Section 2710 of title 18, United States Code, is amended—
in subsection (b)(2)(C), by inserting after “an equivalent State warrant,” the following: “a warrant issued by a Tribal court using the warrant procedures described in section 202(a)(2) of Public Law 90–284 (commonly known as the “Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968”) (25 U.S.C. 1302(a)(2)),”; and
in subsection (d), by striking “or a political subdivision of a State” and inserting “a political subdivision of a State, or an Indian Tribe”.