Sponsor
Tom McClintock
Representative · R-CA
Representative · R-CA
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.
The Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians will have ~265 acres taken into federal trust, expanding the tribe's land base and strengthening tribal self‑governance and land-management under federal trust protections.
Local governments and the public will get required access to land survey records, improving transparency about boundaries and the land transfer.
The Tribe will be prohibited from operating class II or III gaming on the new trust land, limiting potential economic development and gaming revenue for the Tribe.
Transfer of jurisdiction and reservation expansion could alter local land use and governance, creating coordination needs, regulatory changes, and uncertainty for nearby communities and local governments.
Federal agencies (Interior/BIA) will incur surveying and administrative costs to take the land into trust and administer it under federal trust responsibilities, potentially imposing modest taxpayer costs.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Transfers about 265 acres into trust for the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, makes them reservation land, and bars class II/III gaming there.
Official title: Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025
Introduced March 24, 2025 by Tom McClintock · Last progress May 20, 2026
Transfers about 265 acres of specified federal land into trust for the benefit of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians and makes that land part of the Tribe’s Reservation. The transfer revokes an earlier Public Land Order, requires the Secretary of the Interior to take the land into trust within 180 days (subject to valid existing rights), requires any needed surveys to be completed and kept on file, and expressly bars class II or III gaming on the taken land under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.