A bill to reaffirm actions taken by the Secretary of the Interior for the benefit of Indian Tribes, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-s-4830
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
Introduced: 2022-09-13
Policy area: Native Americans
Latest action: action_date: 2022-09-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-09-13
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill authorizes the Department of the Interior to take land into trust for all federally recognized Indian tribes.</p> <p>Specifically, the bill applies the Indian Reorganization Act to all federally recognized Indian tribes, regardless of when a tribe became recognized. The amendments made by this bill are retroactively effective as if included in the Indian Reorganization Act. This effectively overrules the Supreme Court's decision in <i>Carcieri v. Salazar, </i>which held that Interior could not take land into trust for a specified tribe because that tribe had not been under federal jurisdiction when the Indian Reorganization Act was enacted in 1934.</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 4830 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES September 13, 2022 Mr. Moran (for himself and Mr. Tester ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs A BILL To reaffirm actions taken by the Secretary of the Interior for the benefit of Indian Tribes, and for other purposes.

1. Ratification and confirmation of actions Any action taken by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to the Act of June 18, 1934 (commonly known as the Indian Reorganization Act ) (48 Stat. 984, chapter 576; 25 U.S.C. 5101 et seq. ), for any Indian Tribe that was federally recognized on the date of the action is ratified and confirmed, to the extent such action is subjected to challenge based on whether the Indian Tribe was federally recognized or under Federal jurisdiction on June 18, 1934, as if the action had, by prior Act of Congress, been specifically authorized and directed.