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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stigler Act Amend-
ments of 2018’’. 
SEC. 2. IN GENERAL. 
The first section of the Act of August 4, 1947 (61 
Stat. 731, chapter 458), is amended— 
(1) in the matter before subsection (a), by 
striking ‘‘That all restrictions’’ and all that follows 
through subsection (a) and inserting the following: 
‘‘SEC. 1. (a) All restrictions against alienation, con-
veyance, lease, mortgage, creation of liens, or other en-
cumbrances upon all lands, including oil and gas or other 
mineral interests, in Oklahoma belonging to a lineal de-
scendant by blood of an original enrollee whose name ap-
pears on the Final Indian Rolls of the Five Civilized 
Tribes in Indian Territory, whether acquired by allotment, 
inheritance, devise, gift, purchase, exchange, partition, 
partition sale, or by purchase with restricted funds, of 
whatever degree of Indian blood, and whether enrolled or 
unenrolled, shall be and are hereby, extended until an Act 
of Congress determines otherwise. 
‘‘(b) The extension of restrictions described in sub-
section (a) shall include without limitation, those interests 
in the estate of a decedent Indian who died before the 
date of enactment of the Stigler Act Amendments of 
2018— 
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‘‘(1) if such interests were acquired by an heir 
or devisee of one-half or more degree of Indian 
blood, as computed from the nearest enrolled lineal 
ancestors of Indian blood enrolled on the Final Rolls 
described in subsection (a), by final order issued by 
an Oklahoma district court or a United States dis-
trict court determining the decedent’s heirs or devi-
sees or otherwise determining the ownership of said 
interests before said date; or 
‘‘(2) if such interests were, immediately prior to 
the decedent’s death, subject to restrictions and had 
not, as of said date, been— 
‘‘(A) the subject of a final order issued by 
an Oklahoma district court or a United States 
district court determining the decedent’s heirs 
or devisees or otherwise determining the owner-
ship of said interests; 
‘‘(B) conveyed by the decedent’s undeter-
mined heirs or devisees by deed approved by an 
Oklahoma district court; or 
‘‘(C) conveyed by the decedent’s undeter-
mined heirs or devisees of less than one-half de-
gree of Indian blood with or without Oklahoma 
district court approval. 
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‘‘SEC. 2. (a) Except as provided in subsection (f), 
subsection (g), subsection (h), and subsection (i), no con-
veyance, including an oil and gas or mineral lease, of any 
interest in the restricted lands described in this section 
shall be valid unless approved in open court by the district 
court of the county in Oklahoma in which the land is situ-
ated;’’; 
(2) in subsection (b)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘county judge’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘district judge’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘Proceedings for approval 
of conveyances by restricted heirs or devisees’’ 
and inserting ‘‘Proceedings for approval of con-
veyances’’; 
(3) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘best interest 
of the Indian’’ and inserting ‘‘best interest of the 
grantor’’; and 
(4) by adding before the period at the end the 
following: ‘‘; (h) nothing contained in this section 
shall limit or affect the right of an Indian owner of 
restricted lands described in this Act to seek and ob-
tain Secretarial removal of restrictions on all or any 
portion of said restricted lands in accordance with 
any applicable Federal law; (i) nothing contained in 
this section shall invalidate the alienation, convey-
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ance, lease, including oil and gas or other mineral 
leases, mortgage, creation of liens, or other encum-
brance of any lands, if such action was effective be-
fore the date of enactment of the Stigler Act 
Amendments of 2018 and valid under the law then 
in effect; and (j) in determining the quantum of In-
dian blood of any Indian heir or devisee, the Final 
Indian Rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian 
Territory as to such heir or devisee, if enrolled, shall 
be conclusive of his or her quantum of Indian blood. 
If unenrolled, his or her degree of Indian blood shall 
be computed from the nearest enrolled lineal ances-
tors of Indian blood enrolled on the Final Indian 
Rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Terri-
tory’’. 
SEC. 3. TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS. 
The Act of August 4, 1947 (61 Stat. 731, chapter 
458), is amended— 
(1) in section 5, by striking ‘‘of one-half or 
more Indian blood,’’; 
(2) in section 6(c)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘purchase, partition sale,’’ 
after ‘‘gift,’’ each place it appears; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘of one-half or more In-
dian blood’’; and 
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(3) in section 8, by striking ‘‘of one-half or 
more Indian blood,’’. 
SEC. 4. REPEALS. 
The following are repealed: 
(1) The first section of the Act of August 11, 
1955 (69 Stat. 666, chapter 768). 
(2) Section 2 of the Act of August 4, 1947 (61 
Stat. 731, chapter 458). 
Passed the House of Representatives September 12, 
2018. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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