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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.
The Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians will receive ~265 acres placed into federal trust, expanding the Tribe's reservation land base and giving it access to federal trust protections and programs.
Tribal members, local governments, and residents will face less legal uncertainty because the bill revokes a prior Public Land Order and transfers jurisdiction to the Secretary of the Interior, clarifying title and jurisdiction over the parcels.
Local governments and the public will gain transparency because surveys for the lands will be filed and made available for public inspection at BIA offices.
Local residents and jurisdictions will lose some local land-use control and could see changes in zoning, permitting, or service arrangements as the parcels move from local/state jurisdiction to federal trust administered under tribal/federal law.
The Tribe is barred from conducting Class II and III gaming on the newly trust lands, foreclosing a possible source of economic development and gaming revenue for the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians.
Nearby local governments and taxpayers may lose potential future property tax and regulatory revenue opportunities from development on the lands once they are held in trust.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Transfers about 265 acres of BLM land into federal trust for the Shingle Springs Band, making it reservation land and prohibiting Class II/III gaming on those parcels.
Transfers about 265 acres of Bureau of Land Management land in California into federal trust for the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians and declares those parcels part of the tribe’s reservation. The Secretary of the Interior must, within 180 days of enactment and subject to valid existing rights, place the specified parcels into trust, complete any required surveys and minor corrections, and retain the surveys in Bureau of Indian Affairs files; the transferred lands are explicitly barred from Class II and Class III gaming.
Introduced March 24, 2025 by Tom McClintock · Last progress December 10, 2025