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U.S. House Passes Savanna's Act, Moves to be Signed by President
https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/u-s-house-passes-savanna-s-act-moves-to-be-signed-by-presidentU.S. House Passes Savanna’s Act, Moves to be Signed by President
BY NATIVE NEWS ONLINE STAFF
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Savanna’s Act, which addresses the disturbing increase in missing and murdered Native American women by creating new guidelines for responding to such cases, and by incentivizing various law enforcement agencies to implement them.
Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM), a tribal citizen of the Laguna Pueblo, was joined Monday by Rep. Norma Torres (D-CA) and Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) to celebrate the passage of Savanna’s Act.
The bill is named after Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind, who was brutally murdered in 2017. LaFontaine-Greywind was a pregnant 22-year-old tribal citizen of the Spirit Lake Nation in North Dakota.