Alaska’s Right to Ivory Sales and Tradition Act or the ARTIST Act This act prohibits states from imposing bans on marine mammal products produced by Alaska Natives. Specifically, states may not prohibit the interstate commerce, importation, sale, transfer, trade, barter, or possession of marine mammal ivory, marine mammal bone, or baleen legally produced by an Alaska Native as an authentic Alaska Native article of handicrafts and clothing.
How it passed
house
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass — Passed
Democratic: 207 Yea – 0 Nay (5 other)Independent: 1 Yea – 0 NayRepublican: 196 Yea – 14 Nay (7 other)
senate
Passed without a recorded vote — no member of either party recorded opposition.
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