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2007 - 2008 LEGISLATURE
March 22, 2007 - Introduced by Representatives Vos, Suder, Honadel,
Montgomery, Wood, Zipperer, Ziegelbauer, Kestell, Petersen, Moulton,
Rhoades, Kramer, Meyer, Roth, Nygren, Gottlieb, Vukmir, Bies, M.
Williams, Strachota, A. Ott, Nass, Ballweg, F. Lasee, J. Ott, Nerison,
LeMahieu, Gundrum, Petrowski, Jeskewitz, Albers and Gunderson,
cosponsored by Senators Kanavas, Harsdorf, Grothman, Schultz, Leibham
and Darling. Referred to Committee on Urban and Local Affairs.
AB205,1,3
1An Act to create 14.037 of the statutes;
relating to: requiring legislative
2approval to locate a gaming establishment on certain lands taken into trust for
3the benefit of Indian tribes.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
The federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, which regulates gaming activities
on Indian lands, requires that, before an Indian gaming establishment may be
located on Indian lands taken into trust after October 17, 1988 (off-reservation
lands), the governor must concur with the decision of the U.S. secretary of the
interior (secretary) that the proposed Indian gaming establishment would be in the
best interest of the Indian tribe and its members and would not be detrimental to the
surrounding community.
This bill provides that the governor may not concur with a decision of the
secretary that an Indian gaming establishment proposed to be located on
off-reservation lands would be in the best interest of the Indian tribe and its
members and would not be detrimental to the surrounding community, unless the
legislature first concurs in the determination by joint resolution.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB205, s. 1
4Section
1. 14.037 of the statutes is created to read:
AB205,2,8
114.037 Legislative approval of Indian gaming on lands taken into trust
2after October 17, 1988. The governor may not concur with a determination of the
3U.S. secretary of the interior, under
25 USC 2719 (b) (1) (A), that a gaming
4establishment proposed to be located on lands acquired by the U.S. secretary of the
5interior in trust for the benefit of an Indian tribe after October 17, 1988, would be in
6the best interest of the Indian tribe and its members and would not be detrimental
7to the surrounding community, unless the legislature first concurs in the
8determination by joint resolution.
AB205,2,1110
(1) This act first applies to concurrences issued by the governor on the effective
11date of this subsection.
