Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-2302
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. McClintock, Tom [R-CA-5]
Introduced: 2025-03-24
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: California

Indian lands and resources rights

Land transfers
Latest action: action_date: 2025-09-15
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 242.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-03-24
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025</strong></p><p>This bill takes approximately 204.14 acres&nbsp;of specified lands in El Dorado County, California, into trust for the benefit of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians.</p><p>The bill revokes a specified public land order and administratively transfers the land from the Forest Service to the Department of the Interior. (In the public land order, the land was designated for use by the Forest Service as an experiment station.)</p><p>The bill directs Interior to take the following lands into trust for the benefit of the tribe: (1) approximately 85.3 acres of federal land managed by Interior's Bureau of Land Management (which includes the land transferred&nbsp;from the Forest Service), and (2) approximately 118.84 acres of fee land held by the tribe. These combined lands, approximately 204.14 acres, shall be part of the tribe's reservation. Further, the bill prohibits gaming on the land taken into trust.</p>

tv_txt: IB Union Calendar No. 242 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2302 [Report No. 119–286] IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 24, 2025 Mr. McClintock introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources September 15, 2025 Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on March 24, 2025 A BILL To take certain Federal land in the State of California into trust for the benefit of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025 . 2. Revocation of public land order; lands to be taken into trust (a) Revocation of public land order Notwithstanding any other provision of law— (1) Public Land Order 3309 (Sacramento 071209), dated January 17, 1964 (29 Fed. Reg. 609), is revoked; and (2) jurisdiction over the land described in the public land order referred to in paragraph (1) is transferred to the Secretary. (b) Trust transfer Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, subject to valid existing rights, the Secretary shall place the following land into trust for the benefit of the Tribe: (1) The approximately 80 acres of land generally depicted as BLM Land–Proposed Transfer into Trust on the Map. (2) The approximately 185 acres of land generally depicted as Indian Creek Ranch–Proposed Transfer into Trust Land Status on the Map. (c) Review; survey (1) Review Before the deadline described in subsection (b), the Secretary shall conduct a review of the land described in that subsection to determine if a survey of the land is required. (2) Survey (A) In general If the Secretary determines that a survey is required under paragraph (1) after conducting the review required under that paragraph, the Secretary— (i) shall perform a survey of the land taken into trust under subsection (b); and (ii) may make minor corrections to the survey and legal land description of the land described in that subsection as the Secretary determines to be necessary to correct clerical, typographical, and surveying errors. (B) Availability A survey conducted under subparagraph (A) shall be kept on file and available for public inspection in the appropriate office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. (d) Lands part of reservation; administration The land taken into trust under subsection (b)— (1) is hereby declared to be part of the Reservation; and (2) shall be administered by the Secretary in accordance with the laws and regulations generally applicable to property held in trust by the United States for an Indian Tribe. (e) Gaming prohibited Land taken into trust under subsection (b) shall not be used for any class II gaming or class III gaming under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act ( 25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq. ) (as those terms are defined in section 4 of that Act ( 25 U.S.C. 2703 )). (f) Definitions In this section: (1) Map The term Map means the map prepared by the Bureau of Land Management titled Proposed Bureau of Land Management Land Transfer to Shingle Springs Rancheria and dated May 2, 2025. (2) Reservation The term Reservation means the reservation of the Tribe. (3) Secretary The term Secretary means the Secretary of the Interior. (4) Tribe The term Tribe means the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract), California.

September 15, 2025 Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed

tv_txt: I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2302 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 24, 2025 Mr. McClintock introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources A BILL To take certain Federal land in the State of California into trust for the benefit of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025 . 2. Revocation of public land order; Lands to be taken into trust (a) Revocation of public land order Notwithstanding any other provision of law— (1) Public Land Order 3309 (Sacramento 071209), dated January 17, 1964 (29 Fed. Reg. 609), is revoked; and (2) jurisdiction over the land described in the public land order referred to in paragraph (1) is transferred to the Secretary. (b) Trust transfer Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, subject to valid existing rights, the Secretary shall place the following land into trust for the benefit of the Tribe: (1) The approximately 85.3 acres of land generally depicted as BLM Land - Proposed Transfer into Trust on the Map. (2) The approximately 118.84 acres of land generally depicted as Indian Creek Ranch - Proposed Transfer into Trust Land Status on the Map. (c) Lands part of reservation; administration The land taken into trust under subsection (b)— (1) is hereby declared to be part of the Reservation; and (2) shall be administered by the Secretary in accordance with the laws and regulations generally applicable to property held in trust by the United States for an Indian Tribe. (d) Gaming prohibited Land taken into trust under subsection (b) shall not be used for any class II gaming or class III gaming under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act ( 25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq. ) (as those terms are defined in section 4 of that Act ( 25 U.S.C. 2703 )). (e) Definitions In this section: (1) Map The term Map means the map prepared by the Bureau of Land Management titled Proposed Bureau of Land Management Land Transfer to Shingle Springs Rancheria and dated February 25, 2025. (2) Reservation The term Reservation means the reservation of the Tribe. (3) Secretary The term Secretary means the Secretary of the Interior. (4) Tribe The term Tribe means the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract), California.