Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act
The bill restores and clarifies ANCSA-related land, shares, and corporate status for five southeastern Alaska communities to enable local control and economic development, while trading off reduced public land management, potential shareholder disputes, and administrative, environmental, and safety risks.
Southcentral Foundation Land Transfer Act of 2025
The bill transfers a federal parcel to a community health provider to expand local health services and speed reuse, while limiting the new owner's liability for past contamination — trading improved local care access and lower operating costs against potential environmental health risks and public cleanup or foregone federal revenue.
Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025
The bill places ~265 acres into federal trust for the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians—strengthening tribal land base, protections, and legal clarity and increasing transparency—while shifting local land-use control to federal/trust jurisdiction and limiting future local tax and gaming revenue opportunities, with modest federal administrative costs.
Chiricahua National Park Act
The bill upgrades the site to National Park status and strengthens tribal access and cultural protections, improving conservation and legal clarity while creating greater restrictions on nearby land use, added local infrastructure pressures and occasional closures, and modest additional federal/administrative costs.
Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act
Technical Corrections to the Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water Projects Act, Taos Pueblo Indian Water Rights Settlement Act, and Aamodt Litigation Settlement Act
The bill directs modest, targeted federal funds and legal certainty to several tribal water projects—improving infrastructure and reducing local financial burdens—while increasing federal outlays and slightly reducing Treasury receipts and introducing modest administrative and budgetary risks.
Accept the request to revoke the charter of incorporation of the Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of Minnesota at the request of that Community, and for other purposes.
The bill lets the Lower Sioux Community choose to abandon an outdated federal corporate charter to clarify governance and legal status, but in doing so removes statutory protections and may create short-term legal/financial costs and precedent concerns for other tribes.
Veterinary Services to Improve Public Health in Rural Communities Act
The bill improves tribal veterinary public‑health capacity, One Health coordination, and tribal representation in preparedness, but largely does so without guaranteed new funding and will require administrative capacity and time to translate studies and coordination into concrete, funded protections.
BADGES for Native Communities Act
The bill improves Tribal investigation capacity, coordination, oversight, and officer support for missing persons and related cases, but its limited, time‑bound funding, administrative requirements, and some legal ambiguities risk undercutting long-term impact unless Congress provides sustained resources and clear implementation guidance.
Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendments Act of 2025
The bill directs dedicated federal funding and preserves Tribal ownership to upgrade Crow water infrastructure and meet environmental standards, but shifts account management to the Secretary and leaves tribes responsible for long‑term O&M, creating potential delays and financial burdens for Tribal communities.
To authorize, ratify, and confirm the Agreement of Settlement and Compromise to Resolve the Akwesasne Mohawk Land Claim in the State of New York, and for other purposes.
The bill affirms tribal land status and settles longstanding title disputes—boosting tribal sovereignty, legal clarity, and development opportunities—while creating jurisdictional shifts, potential costs, and property‑access impacts that will affect local governments, nearby residents, and businesses.
Quinault Indian Nation Land Transfer Act
The bill transfers ~72 acres into Quinault tribal trust—strengthening tribal landholdings, governance, and preserving treaty rights while providing contamination disclosure—but it leaves potential cleanup liability and foregoes gaming revenue and some federal forest management oversight.
Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025
The bill boosts Coast Guard capacity, personnel supports, victim protections, and maritime/infrastructure modernization—but does so at the cost of substantial new spending, added administrative burdens, and some tradeoffs in privacy, oversight, and regulatory flexibility.
Eastern Band of Cherokee Historic Lands Reacquisition Act
The bill returns specific TVA lands to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and clarifies trust status to secure cultural preservation, access, and educational benefits, but does so with constraints (existing easements, TVA operational rights, development limits), local tax/jurisdictional impacts, flood and cost risks, and a ban on gaming on those lands that will reduce tribal revenue and jobs.
Expressing support for the designation of September 2025 as "Hawaiian History Month" to recognize the history, culture and contributions of Native Hawaiians and reaffirm the United States Federal trust responsibility to the Native Hawaiian Community to support their well-being.
The resolution formally recognizes Native Hawaiians and promotes education and acknowledgment of federal responsibilities—strengthening cultural recognition and program continuity—while potentially raising expectations and legal debates about land and funding without providing new resources.
Recognizing the importance of the Arctic Council and reaffirming the commitment of the United States to the Arctic Council.
The resolution reaffirms U.S. engagement that can strengthen Indigenous inclusion and scientific cooperation in the Arctic, but it may also justify greater security spending and a more militarized posture that risks sidelining environmental and cooperative governance priorities while raising costs for Americans.
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act.
The resolution affirms and highlights Tribal self-governance and demonstrated capacity to run programs, but it is only symbolic—providing recognition and encouraging interagency coordination without creating new legal authorities or funding, which could raise expectations without delivering resources.
Northeastern Arizona Indian Water Rights Settlement Act of 2025
The bill trades a large, federally funded, legally final water‑rights settlement and substantial tribal water infrastructure funding and allocations (improving drinking water access and long‑term project funding for Navajo, Hopi, and San Juan Southern Paiute communities) for broad tribal waivers, increased federal oversight and approval conditions, environmental and implementation risks, reduced flexibility to market or transfer water, and sizable taxpayer exposure.
Native ELDER Act
The bill improves tribal input, transparency, training, and home-modification supports to help elders age in place, but it increases federal and program costs, administrative burdens, and creates some transparency and politicization trade-offs that could limit effectiveness or raise stakeholder tensions.
Supporting Rural Veterans Access to Healthcare Services Act
The bill broadens eligibility and funding flexibility to expand outreach—especially to tribal, Native Hawaiian, and remote communities—improving access for veterans but increasing federal spending, risking fund concentration, and creating short-term administrative costs.
Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act of 2025
This bill creates a federally funded Commission and advisory structure to document Indian boarding school harms, strengthen Tribal participation, and support repatriation and healing—trading taxpayer-funded investigations and agency workload (and some limits on remedies and transparency) for official recognition, records, and policy recommendations that may lead to future reparative action.
Tule River Tribe Reserved Water Rights Settlement Act of 2025
The Act trades significant federal funding and legally settled Tribal water rights and land trust benefits—bringing infrastructure investment and litigation finality—for substantial taxpayer cost, shifted long‑term financial obligations onto the Tribe/Trust Fund, reduced avenues for certain legal claims, and increased executive discretion that can limit oversight and affect downstream users.
Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project Amendments Act of 2025
The bill expands and finances Navajo Nation water access and establishes long‑term funding and legal structure to operate and maintain Project facilities—but does so by increasing federal spending, preserving significant federal control over facilities, and introducing conditions and legal complexities that may delay delivery and constrain local revenues or tribal operational autonomy.
Navajo Nation Rio San José Stream System Water Rights Settlement Act of 2025
The bill trades substantial, indexed federal funding and legal finality to resolve the Navajo Nation's Rio San José water claims and build water infrastructure for broad waivers of past claims, limits on future challenges, and administrative and appropriation conditions that can delay, constrain, or reduce the settlement's benefits.
Zuni Indian Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2025
The bill provides major federal funding and a legal settlement that secures Zuni water infrastructure, land-in-trust and environmental protections, but does so by extracting broad Tribal waivers, imposing federal oversight and conditions, and restricting some local development and individual allottee rights.
Ohkay Owingeh Rio Chama Water Rights Settlement Act of 2025
The bill trades a legally certain, funded settlement and major water-restoration and infrastructure investments for Ohkay Owingeh (and related environmental and governance benefits) in exchange for broad tribal waivers, substantial federal/state spending, reduced flexibility for other water users, and new administrative and legal constraints that shift risks onto both the tribe and public budgets.
Truckee Meadows Public Lands Management Act
The bill secures large-scale conservation, tribal land restores, and local parcel conveyances that expand recreation, habitat protection, and local planning options—but does so by restricting extractive uses and some infrastructure projects while shifting implementation costs, creating uncertainty and economic impacts for ranchers, developers, utilities, and certain local governments.
PHS ACCESS Act
The bill directs constructive‑service credit toward documented shortage areas (including urban Native organizations) and adds transparent criteria to improve recruitment and fairness, but by making credit discretionary and selectively prioritized it risks weakening guaranteed career incentives, adding administrative complexity, and leaving some underserved areas without needed staffing.
Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Modernization Act of 2026
The bill significantly expands tribal flexibility, tools, and targeted supports to accelerate housing production and increase homeownership on tribal and Native Hawaiian lands, but it does so by loosening federal oversight, environmental and civil‑rights safeguards, and creating budgetary and equity risks that could shift costs or reduce protections for some communities.
Revitalizing America’s Schoolyards Act of 2026
The bill would expand and prioritize funding and technical support to create greener, educational, and climate‑resilient schoolyards—especially for low‑income and tribal schools—while shifting costs, administrative burdens, and some liability/risk to local districts and creating trade‑offs in funding distribution and federal budget predictability.
