Amendments
SAMDT 3971December 11, 2025
This bill fixes past interest issues for three tribal water funds tied to earlier water-rights settlements. It authorizes extra deposits to cover unpaid interest so these funds have the money they were meant to have for water projects and systems. The added amounts are $6,357,674.46 for the Navajo Nation Water Resources Development Trust Fund, $7,794,297.52 for the Taos Pueblo Water Development Fund, and $4,314,709.18 for the Aamodt Settlement Pueblos’ Fund. For the Aamodt fund, the money helps pay for operating, maintaining, and replacing Pueblo water facilities and the regional water system.
It also forgives any repayment to the U.S. of interest earned before September 15, 2017 on certain Aamodt funds, and it does not change earlier federal findings that the settlements’ conditions were met in 2016 and 2017.
Key points
Received in the House.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
Last progress December 15, 2025 (2 weeks ago)
Introduced on February 19, 2025 by Ben Ray Luján
Updated 1 week ago
Last progress July 22, 2025 (5 months ago)