Introduced
May 4, 2026
Mr. Newhouse (for himself, Ms. Leger Fernandez, Ms. Salazar, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. Thompson of California, Mr. Johnson of South Dakota, Mr. Case, Mrs. Fedorchak, Mr. Simpson, Mr. Ellzey, Mr. Hurd of Colorado, Mrs. Bice, Mr. Biggs of Arizona, and Mr. Crane) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
RESOLUTION
Expressing support for the designation of May 5, 2026, as the “National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls”.
- (1) expresses support for the designation of a “National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls”;
- (2) calls on the people of the United States and interested groups to—
- (A) commemorate the lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls whose cases are documented and undocumented in public records and the media; and
- (B) demonstrate solidarity with the families of victims in light of those tragedies;
- (3) recommends that the Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice commission a new study with focused data on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls to ensure up-to-date statistics are made public regarding the current state of the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls crisis given 9 years have passed since their 2016 study was published; and
- (4) recognizes that, despite the positive efforts made, there is more work to be done to address this nationwide crisis.