Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendments Act of 2025
The bill directs dedicated funding and federal account management to improve Crow Tribe water infrastructure and preserves tribal ownership, but shifts ongoing operation and maintenance costs to the Tribe and introduces potential delays and reduced timing control from Secretary‑managed accounts.
Unlocking Native Lands and Opportunities for Commerce and Key Economic Developments Act of 2025
The bill increases tribal ability to grant and expedite rights‑of‑way and simplifies approvals for federally funded projects, but does so by imposing federal conditions and reducing certain environmental and preservation reviews and liability protections—trading some federal safeguards for faster tribal land‑use authority.
Albuquerque Indian School Act of 2026
The bill transfers a small parcel of land into federal trust to give 19 Pueblos clearer legal title and access to federal benefits and protections, while limiting certain economic uses (notably Class I–III gaming) and preserving preexisting encumbrances and a federal easement that constrain development flexibility.
Tribal Access to Electronic Evidence Act
The bill extends modern digital‑evidence and SCA enforcement tools and legal clarity to Tribal governments—strengthening Tribal law enforcement—but it expands government access to communications on Tribal lands and raises compliance and liability costs for service providers.
Quinault Indian Nation Land Transfer Act
The bill transfers ~72 acres into trust for the Quinault Indian Nation and clarifies federal jurisdiction with required contamination disclosures, while leaving cleanup responsibility uncertain, barring gaming-based development, and potentially reducing some federal conservation/recreation protections.
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.
Pit River Land Transfer Act of 2026
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.
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.
Modernizing Access to Our Public Oceans Act
The bill improves public and agency access to standardized, interoperable marine geospatial data—boosting safety, planning, and tribal protections—while creating risks from expanded regulatory discretion, data-privacy exposures, and added costs and administrative burdens for governments and private partners.
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.
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.
New Mexico Land Grant-Mercedes Historical or Traditional Use Cooperation and Coordination Act
The bill gives New Mexico land grant communities clearer recognition and formal pathways (MOUs) to preserve traditional noncommercial uses and infrastructure access on nearby federal lands while preserving existing tribal and state authorities — but much depends on agency discretion, permits, and administrative processes that could cause delays, costs, and limits on federal conservation flexibility.
Archie Cavanaugh Migratory Bird Treaty Clarification Act
The bill trades clearer, expanded legal market access and outreach for Alaska Native artisans against increased risk to migratory bird conservation and new certification/administrative burdens that could fall on small sellers and taxpayers.
Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation Land Exchange Act
The bill returns ancestral land to the Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation and expands protected national forest while preserving a cultural landmark and simplifying boundary implementation, but it imposes survey costs on the tribe, preserves federal access easements, and reduces statutory public-sale transparency for the exchange.
To make technical amendments to update statutory references to provisions reclassified to title 34, United States Code, and to correct related technical errors.
This bill mostly cleans up and modernizes statutory citations and program language—reducing legal ambiguity for many government programs and vulnerable populations—but the wide use of unspecified replacements and cross‑reference edits creates short‑term legal uncertainty, administrative costs, and the risk of inadvertent changes to eligibility or authorities without new funding.
Older Americans Act Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill strengthens coordination, transparency, and direct supports for older adults (behavioral health, caregivers, nutrition, tribal elders, abuse prevention) but does so at the cost of substantial new administrative requirements, potential funding strains and reallocations, and some privacy, equity, and oversight trade-offs.
Native American Entrepreneurial Opportunity Act
Creates a dedicated SBA office and funding stream to boost Tribal and Native Hawaiian small businesses and formalize consultation, at the cost of new federal spending, a limited seven-year authorization that risks future uncertainty, and potential perceptions of reduced resources for other small businesses.
Tribal Warrant Fairness Act
The bill clarifies and streamlines Tribal eligibility and participation—improving legal clarity and coordination for fugitive operations—while excluding tribes not yet on the Interior list and imposing potential administrative, coordination, and resource burdens.
ARTIST Act
The bill protects Alaska Native subsistence practices, cultural commerce, and tribal consultation while increasing evidentiary transparency in specific challenges — but it narrows which handicrafts qualify for interstate sale, may constrain subsistence if stocks are restricted, and limits state authority to regulate related materials.
Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill increases local, tribal, and nonprofit ability to shape and fund regional marine conservation and boosts transparency, but it creates risks of shortened program continuity, potential narrowing of prior authorities, limited federal oversight, and possible exclusions or accountability gaps.
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.
To amend the Catawba Indian Tribe of South Carolina Land Claims Settlement Act of 1993.
The bill makes it easier for Catawba descendants to gain tribal membership and cultural inclusion by eliminating a political-relations proof, while risking dilution of limited tribal resources and added complexity for tribal governance.
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 two Wampanoag tribes enter longer multi-decade leases to support stable housing and larger projects, trading increased development and financing flexibility against risks of reduced future tribal control and long-term limitation of land availability for future members.
Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025
The bill expands tribal land and strengthens tribal self-governance and federal protections while increasing transparency, but it blocks gaming on the new land and creates modest federal costs and local governance adjustments.
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.
HEATS Act
The bill speeds and lowers the cost of state-led geothermal development and preserves federal royalties, but it does so by reducing Federal environmental and historic-preservation reviews and shifting oversight to states, increasing risks to species, habitats, cultural sites, and producing uneven protections across states.
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
