Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Pit River Land Transfer Act of 2025
The bill transfers ~584 acres into federal trust to strengthen the Pit River Tribe's land base and access to federal services while preserving existing easements and banning certain gaming, trading increased tribal sovereignty and services for limits on land control, potential loss of gaming-driven economic opportunity, some changes to public access, and modest taxpayer/admin costs.
To reauthorize the Fort Peck Reservation Rural Water System Act of 2000.
The bill clarifies and potentially strengthens legal and administrative tools for water service on the Fort Peck Reservation, improving local control and coordination, but leaves funding uncertain and could add compliance costs for tribal governments.
To take certain land in the State of California into trust for the benefit of the Pechanga Band of Indians, and for other purposes.
The bill transfers ~860 acres into trust for the Pechanga Band, protecting cultural and natural resources and preserving existing rights, while trading off local land-use control, future development flexibility, and potential tribal gaming revenue.
Albuquerque Indian School Act of 2025
The bill strengthens tribal control and ownership of specific Albuquerque properties—supporting cultural, service, and development uses—while restricting gaming as a revenue option and leaving existing encumbrances and a rapid transfer timeline that could limit development and increase administrative costs.
Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act
The bill grants specific Southeast Alaska communities Urban Corporation status, land, and share entitlements—providing tangible economic assets, legal clarity, and social benefits to local Alaska Natives—while creating risks of governance disputes, administrative costs, land‑use changes, and limits on future claims or public control.
To amend the Act of August 9, 1955 (commonly known as the “Long-Term Leasing Act”), to authorize leases of up to 99 years for land in the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Reservation and land held in trust for the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), and for other purposes
The bill lets the Mashpee Wampanoag and Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) use longer leases to support stable housing and multi-decade projects, but it increases the risk of reduced tribal control and diminished land/housing availability for future tribal members if leases are not carefully negotiated.
Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe Project Lands Restoration Act
The bill transfers roughly 1,082.63 acres into trust and explicitly preserves tribal treaty and river protections—strengthening tribal sovereignty, cultural use, and environmental safeguards—while reducing potential gaming opportunities, shrinking federal park acreage for those parcels and limiting some fiscal transparency around the transfer.
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.
North Dakota Trust Lands Completion Act of 2026
The bill streamlines and clarifies how North Dakota state land grants and certain federal parcels can be transferred or swapped—reducing title uncertainty and protecting tribal and conservation lands—at the cost of narrower land availability, potential delays and added compliance/administrative burdens, and new tensions between development and conservation interests.
Cape Fox Land Entitlement Finalization Act of 2025
The bill secures and clarifies tribal land ownership and public access while accelerating conveyances, but it transfers federal interests with easements and encumbrances that can limit development, reduce federal flexibility, and create administrative and legal burdens.
Tribal Trust Land Homeownership Act of 2025
The bill standardizes definitions, enforces deadlines, digitizes communications, and creates oversight to speed and clarify mortgage processing on Indian trust land—benefiting borrowers, tribes, and lenders—while imposing administrative and technology costs, potential procedural rigidity, privacy risks, and the danger that strict deadlines or under-resourced enforcement could produce errors or bottlenecks.
Post-Disaster Reforestation and Restoration Act
The bill focuses federal resources and new grant/contract pathways to accelerate tribal and federal reforestation and improve project success, but it creates short-term program uncertainty, administrative costs, and risks unequal access for smaller tribes without additional capacity support.
Small Cemetery Conveyance Act
The bill helps tribes, New Mexico land grants, and local governments reclaim and legally protect historic cemetery lands at no cost to preserve burial sites, but it forgoes sale revenue, shifts upkeep costs to recipients, may exclude some descendant claimants, and grants waiver authority that could weaken procedural safeguards.
Shivwits Band of Paiutes Jurisdictional Clarity Act
The bill clarifies the Shivwits Band's legal status and makes commercial and leasing rules more predictable—benefiting development and non‑tribal actors—while shifting dispute resolution toward state/federal fora and arbitration, which reduces tribal legal autonomy and can raise costs, uncertainty, and enforcement challenges.
To authorize leases of up to 99 years for land held in trust for federally recognized Indian Tribes.
The bill alters statutory leasing language that could clarify or change tribal leasing rights and revenues while imposing immediate administrative implementation burdens on the Department of the Interior — trading regulatory change (and uncertainty for tribes) for faster statutory effect and agency action.
Chugach Alaska Land Exchange Oil Spill Recovery Act of 2025
The bill streamlines and legally clarifies land exchanges (benefiting Alaska Native entities, landowners, and federal managers and accelerating dispute resolution and conservation actions) at the cost of shifting control and potential revenues to the federal government, reducing local/state autonomy
Alaska Native Vietnam Era Veterans Land Allotment Extension Act of 2025
The bill gives Alaska Native veterans and tribal communities substantially more time to secure land allotments and eases application timing pressures, but it also prolongs resolution for other stakeholders and raises federal administrative burdens.
Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act
The bill transfers and protects control of a culturally significant ~40-acre site to the Oglala and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes—strengthening tribal sovereignty and clarifying jurisdiction—while reducing local tax revenue, limiting some federal oversight and future flexibility, and imposing transition costs for local governments and service providers.
Amend the Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience Act to authorize grants to Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and Native Hawaiian organizations, and for other purposes.
The bill provides modest, targeted federal funding and interagency support to help tribes grow tourism and strengthen economic self-determination, but the funding may be too small and could impose administrative burdens and trade-offs for already stretched tribal programs.
Reaffirm the applicability of the Indian Reorganization Act to the Lytton Rancheria of California, and for other purposes.
The bill returns land into federal trust for the Lytton Rancheria—strengthening tribal sovereignty, governance clarity, and access to federal services for tribe members—while reducing state/local tax and regulatory control and creating potential local land‑use impacts for nearby residents and businesses.
Provide for the equitable settlement of certain Indian land disputes regarding land in Illinois, and for other purposes.
The bill gives the Miami Tribe a narrow federal path to resolve historic Illinois land claims and the chance for judicial relief if it files quickly, but it imposes an unforgiving one-year deadline and may unsettle property interests and impose costs and uncertainty on landowners, state authorities, and taxpayers.
Tribal Forest Protection Act Amendments Act of 2025
The bill strengthens tribal authority, funding, and federal partnership flexibility to protect and restore tribal forests and rangelands, at the cost of increased federal spending and potential jurisdictional and interagency coordination challenges that could complicate or slow implementation.
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Land Claim Settlement Act of 2025
The bill trades a negotiated cash settlement and clarified titles—reducing litigation, providing funds for the Tribe, and stabilizing local land ownership—for limits on future tribal claims and sovereignty, increased federal expenditures, and some land‑use constraints for local stakeholders.
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 enables the Lower Sioux Indian Community to remove an outdated federal charter and gain clearer authority to reorganize governance, but it eliminates statutory corporate protections and may impose short-term legal/financial burdens and broader precedent concerns for other tribes.
Technical Correction to the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation Water Rights Settlement Act of 2025
The bill provides a modest, targeted federal payment and clearer authority to support state and local public land projects, at the cost of $5.12 million to taxpayers and a risk of creating a precedent that could complicate future budgeting and oversight.
Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendments Act of 2025
The bill directs dedicated federal MR&I funds to improve the Crow Tribe's water infrastructure and preserves Tribal ownership, while altering account management and explicitly leaving long-term operation and maintenance costs, timing control, and some administrative burdens to the Tribe and the Secretary.
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 substantially strengthens Saint Regis Mohawk tribal sovereignty and clears title and jurisdictional uncertainty—benefiting tribal self‑governance and enabling infrastructure and development—while shifting jurisdiction, regulatory authority, and some implementation costs onto nearby residents, businesses, and local/state governments.
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.
TRACE Act
The bill improves search-and-rescue effectiveness and transparency by adding standardized Federal-land location data to NamUs and requiring annual reporting, but it introduces modest costs, privacy risks, and potential coverage gaps for some Federal lands that must be managed.
