§2905 — Title 25 Indians | U.S. Code

Summary

The President must order heads of federal departments and agencies to review their policies and procedures with input from Indian tribes, Native American governments, traditional leaders, and educators. They must find and make needed changes so those policies follow this law. They must try, whenever a specific federal law does not clearly stop them, to choose the options that best carry out the law’s goals. They must also review the laws they manage and tell the President what statutory changes are needed. By one year after October 30, 1990, the President must send Congress a report with recommended law changes. By one year after January 5, 2023, the President must require the evaluations above and send Congress a report showing the results and the recommendations of the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Secretary of Education, after consulting tribes, traditional leaders, and Native American language community representatives. Those recommendations must cover (1) bringing federal laws into compliance with this law, (2) improving interagency coordination to support revitalizing, keeping, and using Native American languages, and (3) reducing duplication, inefficiency, and barriers that make it hard for language communities to use federal programs for language work.

Title 25, §2905

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(a)The President shall direct the heads of the various Federal departments, agencies, and instrumentalities to—

(1)evaluate their policies and procedures in consultation with Indian tribes and other Native American governing bodies as well as traditional leaders and educators in order to determine and implement changes needed to bring the policies and procedures into compliance with the provisions of this chapter;

(2)give the greatest effect possible in making such evaluations, absent a clear specific Federal statutory requirement to the contrary, to the policies and procedures which will give the broadest effect to the provisions of this chapter; and

(3)evaluate the laws which they administer and make recommendations to the President on amendments needed to bring such laws into compliance with the provisions of this chapter.

(b)By no later than the date that is 1 year after October 30, 1990, the President shall submit to the Congress a report containing recommendations for amendments to Federal laws that are needed to bring such laws into compliance with the provisions of this chapter.

(c)Not later than 1 year after January 5, 2023, the President shall—

(1)require the heads of the various Federal departments, agencies, and instrumentalities to carry out an evaluation described in subsection (a)(1); and

(2)submit to Congress a report that describes—

(A)the results of the evaluations; and

(B)the recommendations of the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Secretary of Education, after consultation with Indian tribes, traditional leaders, and representatives of Native American language communities, for amendments to Federal laws that are needed—

(i)to bring the Federal laws into compliance with this chapter;

(ii)to improve interagency coordination for purposes of supporting revitalization, maintenance, and use of Native American languages; and

(iii)to reduce duplication, inefficiencies, and barriers Native American language communities face in accessing Federal programs to support efforts to revitalize, maintain, or increase the use of Native American languages.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in subsec. (c)(2)(B)(i), was in the original “this Act” and was translated as reading “this title”, meaning title I of Pub. L. 101–477, known as the Native American Languages Act, which is classified generally to this chapter, to reflect the probable intent of Congress.

Amendments

2023—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 117–337 added subsec. (c).

§2905 Evaluations