American Indian Religious Freedom Act Amendments of 1994 (Pub. L. 103-344)

American Indian Religious Freedom Act Amendments of 1994, Public Law 103-344, enacted 6 October 1994 and codified at 42 U.S.C. 1996a, is the actual statutory text through which the United States Congress protects the use, possession and transportation of peyote by an enrolled member of a federally recognised tribe for bona fide traditional ceremonial purposes connected with a traditional Indian religion. Its strength is that it is the primary legal text itself, verifiable against congress.gov, and it is the specific legal basis for the peyote sacrament's protected status in US law, distinct from the broader 1978 Act it amends. Its limit is that it is the statute alone, not a court's interpretation of it or a history of the peyotist movement, so a claim about how the exemption has actually been applied in litigation needs case law or scholarly legal analysis alongside the bare statutory text.