Bill Text: TX HB5248 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 5248

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of a task force to provide recommendations for the repatriation and disposition of Indigenous objects held by state institutions and agencies.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-27 - Left pending in committee [HB5248 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB5248-Introduced.html



	By: Zwiener	H.B. No. 5248



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	Relating to the establishment of a task force to provide
	recommendations for the repatriation and disposition of Indigenous
	objects held by state institutions and agencies.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subtitle D, Chapter 442, Texas Historical
	Commission is amended by adding section 442.0066. to read as
	follows:
	Sec. 442.0069. NATIVE AMERICAN PROTECTION AND REPATRIATION
	TASK FORCE. (a) The Texas Historical Commission shall establish a
	task force to investigate and provide recommendations for the
	repatriation and disposition of Native American and indigenous
	human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and other objects
	of cultural patrimony that are held by state institutions and
	agencies.
	(b) The task force shall operate for no more than two years
	from the date of which it is established by the commission.
	(c) The task force shall consist of representatives from the
	following groups:
	(1) Federally recognized indigenous tribes who have
	ancestral ties to Texas.
	(2) Non-federally recognized indigenous tribes who
	have ancestral ties to Texas and have requested remains or other
	objects through the Native American Graves Protection and
	Repatriation process previously.
	(3) The Texas Historical Commission.
	(4) The State Archeological Program.
	(d) The Texas Historical Commission may include other
	non-federally recognized indigenous tribes at their discretion.
	(e) The Task Force shall provide an annual report with their
	recommendations to the Legislature no later than December 31 each
	year they are active.
	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.