A bill to amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to repeal a provision limiting the export of timber harvested from land conveyed to the Kake Tribal Corporation under that Act.

Bill: 115-s-1149
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2017-05-17
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska

Alaska Natives and Hawaiians

Forests, forestry, trees

Land transfers
Latest action: action_date: 2018-11-28
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 679.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-05-17
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to revise provisions regarding timber from land transferred to the Kake Tribal Corporation, an Alaska Native village corporation. The bill repeals prohibitions on: (1) exporting from Alaska unprocessed logs from the land, and (2) the corporation conveying timber from the land to a person for export from Alaska.</p>

tv_txt: II 115th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1149 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 17, 2017 Ms. Murkowski introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources A BILL To amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to repeal a provision limiting the export of timber harvested from land conveyed to the Kake Tribal Corporation under that Act.

1. Repeal of provision limiting the export of timber harvested from certain Kake Tribal Corporation land Section 42 of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act ( 43 U.S.C. 1629h ) is amended— (1) by striking subsection (h); (2) by redesignating subsection (i) as subsection (h); and (3) in subsection (h) (as so redesignated), in the first sentence, by striking and to provide and all that follows through subsection (h) .

tv_txt: II Calendar No. 679 115th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 1149 [Report No. 115–393] IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 17, 2017 Ms. Murkowski introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources November 28, 2018 Reported by Ms. Murkowski , without amendment A BILL To amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to repeal a provision limiting the export of timber harvested from land conveyed to the Kake Tribal Corporation under that Act.

1. Repeal of provision limiting the export of timber harvested from certain Kake Tribal Corporation land Section 42 of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act ( 43 U.S.C. 1629h ) is amended— (1) by striking subsection (h); (2) by redesignating subsection (i) as subsection (h); and (3) in subsection (h) (as so redesignated), in the first sentence, by striking and to provide and all that follows through subsection (h) .

November 28, 2018 Reported without amendment