PROHIBITION ON TRANSFERS OF BUREAU AND CONTRACT SCHOOLS.

SEC. 5102. PROHIBITION ON TRANSFERS OF BUREAU AND CONTRACT SCHOOLS. Section 1121 of the Education Amendments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2001) is amended— (1) by adding at the end of subsection (g) the following new paragraph: “(5) The Secretary may terminate, contract, transfer to any other authority, or consolidate or substantially curtail the operation or facilities of— “(A) any Bureau funded school that is operated on or after April 1, 1987, or “(B) any program of such a school that is operated on or after April 1, 1987. only if the tribal governing body approves such action.”. 102 STAT. 364 (2) by striking “Such standards and procedures shall require that whenever” in subsection (g)(3) and inserting in lieu thereof “Whenever”, (3) by inserting “transfer to any other authority,” after “close,” and after “closure,” each place either term appears in paragraphs (3) and (4) of subsection (g), and (4) by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: “(j) For purposes of this section, the term ‘tribal governing body’ means, with respect to any school, the tribal governing body, or tribal governing bodies, that represent at least 90 percent of the students served by such school.”.