Agua Caliente Land Exchange Fee to Trust Confirmation Act

Bill: 117-s-3273
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA]
Introduced: 2021-11-29
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: California

Federal-Indian relations

Indian lands and resources rights

Land transfers
Latest action: action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 430.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-11-29
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Agua Caliente Land Exchange Fee to Trust Confirmation Act</b></p> <p>This bill takes approximately 2,560 acres of specified lands in California into trust for the benefit of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. Lands taken into trust shall be part of the tribe's reservation.</p> <p>Further, the bill prohibits gaming on the land taken into trust.</p>

action_date: 2022-06-23
action_desc: Reported to Senate
text: <p><b>Agua Caliente Land Exchange Fee to Trust Confirmation Act</b></p> <p>This bill takes approximately 2,560 acres of specified lands in California into trust for the benefit of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. Lands taken into trust shall be part of the tribe's reservation.</p> <p>Further, the bill prohibits gaming on the land taken into trust.</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 3273 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES November 29, 2021 Mr. Padilla (for himself and Mrs. Feinstein ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs A BILL To take certain land in the State of California into trust for the benefit of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Agua Caliente Land Exchange Fee to Trust Confirmation Act . 2. Land to be taken into trust for the benefit of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians (a) In general The approximately 2,560 acres of land owned by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians generally depicted as Lands to be Taken into Trust on the map entitled Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians Land to be Taken into Trust and dated November 17, 2021, is hereby taken into trust by the United States for the benefit of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. (b) Administration Land taken into trust by subsection (a) shall be— (1) part of the reservation of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians; and (2) administered in accordance with the laws and regulations generally applicable to property held in trust by the United States for the benefit of an Indian Tribe. (c) Gaming prohibited Land taken into trust by subsection (a) shall not be eligible for gaming under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act ( 25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq. ).

tv_txt: II Calendar No. 430 117th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3273 [Report No. 117–125] IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES November 29, 2021 Mr. Padilla (for himself and Mrs. Feinstein ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs June 23, 2022 Reported by Mr. Schatz , without amendment A BILL To take certain land in the State of California into trust for the benefit of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Agua Caliente Land Exchange Fee to Trust Confirmation Act . 2. Land to be taken into trust for the benefit of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians (a) In general The approximately 2,560 acres of land owned by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians generally depicted as Lands to be Taken into Trust on the map entitled Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians Land to be Taken into Trust and dated November 17, 2021, is hereby taken into trust by the United States for the benefit of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. (b) Administration Land taken into trust by subsection (a) shall be— (1) part of the reservation of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians; and (2) administered in accordance with the laws and regulations generally applicable to property held in trust by the United States for the benefit of an Indian Tribe. (c) Gaming prohibited Land taken into trust by subsection (a) shall not be eligible for gaming under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act ( 25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq. ).

June 23, 2022 Reported without amendment