Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Wabeno Economic Development Act
The bill trades localized economic gains and faster, more transparent permitting for construction and a modest one‑time federal receipt against risks to public land access, environmental protections, and longer‑term public control of national forest parcels.
Crystal Reservoir Conveyance Act
The bill transfers local control and permanent public access to Crystal Reservoir—bringing tailored water management and environmental protections—while shifting long-term expenses, legal risks, and planning uncertainty onto the City and local taxpayers, limiting certain commercial uses.
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 returns ~860 acres to the Pechanga Band as federal trust land and protects it for cultural and environmental preservation, strengthening tribal sovereignty while restricting commercial uses (notably gaming) and reducing local tax revenue, requiring ongoing coordination over existing encumbrances.
To amend the Catawba Indian Tribe of South Carolina Land Claims Settlement Act of 1993.
The bill restores membership rights and access to tribal services for Catawba descendants previously excluded from the 1993 roll, at the likely cost of greater demand on tribal resources and increased potential for internal governance disputes.
Albuquerque Indian School Act of 2025
The bill places small parcels into trust for 19 Pueblo communities—providing clarity, program access, and potential community benefits—while preserving encumbrances, a federal easement, and a gaming ban that limit certain development and economic options.
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.
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 State–Federal land exchanges and strengthens tribal trust and conservation protections in North Dakota—providing title clarity and continuity for leases and grazing—while accelerating conveyances and reducing some procedural protections, which raises environmental, administrative, and fiscal risks for communities, agencies, and certain landholders.
Cape Fox Land Entitlement Finalization Act of 2025
The bill prioritizes protecting tribal land rights, clarifying parcels, and preserving public access while accelerating conveyances — at the cost of limiting certain corporate land acquisitions and development, reducing some federal land flexibility, and imposing administrative and potential legal burdens on agencies and stakeholders.
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.
Small Cemetery Conveyance Act
The bill makes it easier and cheaper for tribes, local governments, and qualifying New Mexico land grants to regain and protect historic cemetery lands—preserving cultural and community burial sites—while foregoing sale revenue, shifting maintenance costs to recipients, risking exclusion of unrecognized descendant groups, and creating potential procedural inconsistencies.
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.
Save Our Sequoias Act
The bill directs extensive new coordination, funding, and expedited authorities to protect and restore giant sequoias—trading faster, better‑funded action and greater Tribal participation for higher federal costs, reduced routine public/environmental review, and increased role for donors and private
Apache County and Navajo County Conveyance Act of 2025
The bill grants two rural counties small parcels of federal land for cemetery use and speeds conveyances—providing local control and modest federal savings—while shifting survey/cleanup costs and legal/environmental risks onto the counties and nearby communities.
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
To require the Secretary of Agriculture to convey the Pleasant Valley Ranger District Administrative Site to Gila County, Arizona.
The bill transfers federal land to Gila County at minimal federal cost to support veterans' services and local control, but shifts compliance costs, liability, and restrictive use conditions to the county, potentially straining local finances and exposing it to cleanup and reversion risks.
La Paz County Solar Energy and Job Creation Act
The bill transfers clearly defined federal parcels to La Paz County quickly—helping local planning and protecting some cultural and sensitive resources—while shifting costs to the county, narrowing public planning opportunities, and reducing public land/access in ways that may concern local residents and recreationists.
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
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 creates a targeted federal grant program to help tribal and Native Hawaiian communities develop tourism, infrastructure, and cultural programs, but the modest $35M authorization and likely administrative/coordination burdens may limit how many communities truly benefit.
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.
Utah Wildfire Research Institute Act of 2025
The bill creates a Utah-focused forest health and wildfire prevention Institute and enables university partnerships, but it leaves funding and implementation details unspecified and may increase federal administrative burdens.
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 federal opportunity to pursue treaty-based title or damages and the chance for a one-time final resolution, but imposes a strict one-year forfeiture deadline and raises legal uncertainty and cost risks for landowners, the state, and taxpayers.
University of Utah Research Park Act
The bill clears the way for the University of Utah to expand and develop its large research park—adding jobs, student housing, and a transit hub—by ratifying prior approvals to reduce legal uncertainty, while increasing local environmental impacts, potential public costs, and limiting opportunities for renewed public review.
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Land Claim Settlement Act of 2025
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.
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.
