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Amends the Claims Resolution Act of 2010 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior (the Secretary) to enter into contracts under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act with eligible Indian tribes to carry out activities under the Land Consolidation Program.

Requires the Secretary to invest the amounts remaining in the Trust Land Consolidation Fund into public debt securities with maturities suitable to the needs of the Fund.

Deems invested funds to have been used to conduct the Land Consolidation Program and for other costs associated with the Class Action Settlement Agreement.

Makes the Secretary responsible for ensuring that all payments are made to beneficiaries within one year.

Date: 2014-05-21
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
Indian Country Economic Revitalization Act of 2014 - Amends the Native American Business Development, Trade Promotion, and Tourism Act of 2000 to direct the Secretary of Commerce, within one year of this Act's enactment and every three years thereafter, to submit a report and recommendations for promoting the sustained growth of the economies of Indian tribes and lands.

Requires each report to include:

 data on Indian business development and employment during the preceding 3-year period, except for the first report which is to include data from the preceding 10 years; an assessment of existing structural advantages and barriers to the economic development of Indian tribes and lands; an analysis of Indian access to adequate infrastructure, affordable energy, educational opportunities, and investment capital; and recommendations on legislation to strengthen the economies of Indian tribes and lands in areas that include regulatory, tax, and trust reform. Directs the Secretary to consider appropriate information contained in previous studies and reports in conducting this Act's studies.

Date: 2014-05-21
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow Alaska Native Corporations an increased tax deduction for donations of conservation easements related to lands conveyed under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Permits a 15-year carryover of contribution amounts that exceed annual limitations on the amount of such tax deduction.

Date: 2014-05-22
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Taxation
Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for producing electricity from an Indian coal production facility, to eliminate: (1) the requirement that such a facility be placed in service before January 1, 2009, and (2) the limitation on the period during which such coal is required to be produced and sold.

Date: 2014-05-30
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Taxation
Fountainhead Property Land Transfer Act - Requires the transfer of administrative jurisdiction over specified federal property in McIntosh County, Oklahoma, within the boundary of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation (the Tribe), from the Secretary of the Army to the Secretary of the Interior, who shall take such land into trust for the benefit of the Tribe.

Date: 2014-06-11
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on September 19, 2014. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Economic Development Through Tribal Land Exchange Act - Provides for the disposition of four parcels of land in California.

Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey approximately 41.15 acres designated as Morongo lands to Lloyd L. Fields in exchange for 41.15 acres owned by Fields to be held in trust for the Morongo Band of Mission Indians.

Grants an easement to the city of Banning for a public right-of-way in exchange for 1.21 acres of land to be held in trust for the Tribe.

Date: 2014-06-12
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children Act - Establishes the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children in the Office of Tribal Justice of the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Requires the President and Congress to appoint to the Commission individuals who have significant experience and expertise in Indian affairs and the matters to be studied by the Commission.

Requires the Commission to conduct a comprehensive study of federal, state, local, and tribal programs that serve Native children, including an evaluation of:

 the impact of concurrent jurisdiction on child welfare systems, barriers Indian tribes and Native Hawaiians face related to grant resources, obstacles to nongovernmental financial support for programs benefitting Native children, issues relating to the validity and statistical significance of data on Native children, programs designed to assist high-risk Native children and their families, and barriers to interagency coordination on programs benefitting Native children. Directs the Commission to use the results of the study and analyses of existing federal data relating to Native children to:

 develop plans and goals for federal policy relating to Native children informed by accurate child well-being measures; recommend modifications and improvements to programs that serve Native children at the federal, state, and tribal level; recommend improvements to the collection of data regarding Native children and the programs that serve them; and identify models of successful federal, state, and tribal programs in the areas studied by the Commission. Requires the Commission to report to the President, Congress, and the White House Council on Native American Affairs on its findings, conclusions, and recommendations for appropriate legislative and administrative action.

Date: 2014-06-19
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
Indian Tribal Self-Determination in Land Consolidation Act of 2014 - Amends the Indian Land Consolidation Act to require the Secretary of the Interior: (1) at the request of a tribal government, to enter into agreements to allow the tribal government to carry out some or all of the Secretary's fractional interest acquisition program; and (2) to make payments to carry out the agreements and authorize the use of interest earned to acquire a fractional interest or permanent improvements on land that already has trust or restricted fractional interests.

Amends the Claims Resolution Act of 2010 to make amounts in the Trust Land Consolidation Fund available to Interior during a 15-year period (under current law, a 10-year period).

Requires annual reports to Congress that assess the implementation of the Trust Land Consolidation Fund.

Date: 2014-07-08
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
Requires a border of any parcel of land that is transferred to or acquired by the Navajo Reservation to be within 18 miles of the trust lands of the Navajo Tribe, including the bands of the Tribe, as of January 2014.

Allows the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands anywhere within Arizona and New Mexico to be exchanged for lands within 18 miles of those trust lands.

Gives the Navajo Tribe the right to deselect not more than 757 acres of the land selected as of January 2014, whether or not such land has already been taken into trust by the Secretary of the Interior. Gives the Tribe the right to reselect land up to the amount it deselected.

Directs the Secretary to report on annual rents owed by the Navajo Tribe to the Hopi Tribe for each of the years 2001-2013.

Authorizes the Navajo Tribe to designate up to 150,000 acres within specified lands to be designated as Navajo Sovereignty Empowerment Zones. Makes inapplicable specified laws within such Zones.

Amends the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute Settlement Act of 1996 to set forth the rights of Navajo heads of household or their successors to relinquish an Accommodation Agreement they have entered into with the Hopi Tribe regarding their residence on Hopi lands.

Reauthorizes and revises the Navajo Rehabilitation Trust Fund. Allows for its use for the development of Navajo Sovereignty Empowerment Zones.

Date: 2014-07-09
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

Blackfoot River Land Exchange Act of 2014 - (Sec. 4) Extinguishes all claims and all right, title, and interest in specified Indian and non-Indian land as part of the settlement of disputes within the Fort Hall Indian Reservation of the Shoshone-Bannock Indian Tribes in Idaho resulting from the realignment of the Blackfoot River by the Corps of Engineers in 1964.

(Sec. 5) Requires the non-Indian land to be held in trust by the United States for the Tribes.

(Sec. 6) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to transfer the Indian land to the Blackfoot River Flood Control District No. 7 for use or sale. Requires any proceeds from the sale of the land to be used to compensate: (1) each non-Indian landowner at fair market value for his or her loss of land resulting from this Act's implementation, and (2) the Blackfoot River Flood Control District No. 7 for any expenses it incurs in carrying out this Act.

Authorizes the Blackfoot River Flood Control District No. 7 to dispose of the land or proceeds that remain in any manner it determines to be appropriate.

Date: 2014-07-09
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

May 31, 1918 Act Repeal Act - Repeals the 1918 Act (authorizing the establishment of a town site on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in Idaho). Grants the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation the exclusive right of first refusal to purchase at fair market value any land offered for sale within the Fort Hall Townsite.

Requires the United States to hold in trust for the benefit of the Tribes or a member of the Tribes, as applicable, any land owned or acquired by the Tribes or a member of the Tribes within the Fort Hall Townsite before, on, or after this Act's enactment.

Date: 2014-07-09
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
United States Civil Rights Trail Special Resource Study Act of 2013 [sic] - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study to evaluate a range of alternatives for the protection and interpretation of sites associated with the struggle for civil rights in the United States, including alternatives for potential addition of some or all of the sites to the National Trails System. Requires submission of a report to Congress that contains the results of such study and recommendations of the Secretary with respect to the route.

Date: 2014-07-10
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Fair and Accountable IHS Recompense Act of 2014 or the FAIR Act - Requires the annual report on the implementation of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to be made available to the public.

Amends the Act to presume that in any civil action, claim, or related appeal brought under the Act the deficiency amounts reported to Congress accurately reflect the minimum damages due to any Indian tribe or tribal organization upon whose behalf such civil action, claim, or appeal was filed absent fraud or mathematical error.

Bars any of the funds awarded in such a case from being allocated for or used to pay attorney fees until: (1) the fees are documented and charged at reasonable hourly rates, and (2) the required documentation has been made available to specified congressional committees and the public.

Date: 2014-07-11
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on November 12, 2014. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the Olgoonik Corporation, an Alaska Native Corporation, approximately 1,518 acres of real property and improvements that comprise a former Distant Early Warning Line site in the National Petroleum Reserve near Wainwright, Alaska.

Requires the Corporation to pay the fair market value of the property.

Permits the Secretary to authorize the Corporation to enter the property at no charge for pre-construction and construction activities.

Exempts this conveyance from certain provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.

Date: 2014-07-22
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Clatsop-Nehalem Restoration Act - Extends federal recognition to the Clatsop-Nehalem Confederated Tribes of Oregon.

Restores all rights and privileges of the Tribe and the members of the Tribe under any federal treaty, Executive order, agreement, statute, or other federal authority that may have been diminished or lost under the Act approved August 13, 1954. Makes the provisions of such Act inapplicable to the Tribe and its members.

Makes the Tribe and its members eligible to receive all federal services and benefits furnished to federally recognized Indian tribes, without regard to the existence of a reservation for the Tribe. Deems members of the Tribe residing in Tillamook and Clatsop Counties in Oregon as residing on or near a reservation.

Declares that no hunting, fishing, or trapping rights of the Tribe or of any member are granted or restored.

Establishes and opens the membership roll of the Tribe.

Date: 2014-07-28
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
American Indian Teacher Loan Forgiveness Act of 2014 - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide up to $17,500 of loan forgiveness to borrowers under the Federal Family Education Loan program or the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan program who: (1) are a member of an Indian tribe, and (2) have been employed as a full-time teacher for five consecutive complete school years in an Indian school or in a local educational agency that serves at least 10 Indian students or whose schools have an enrollment of students at least 25% of which are Indians.

Date: 2014-07-31
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
Oregon Coastal Lands Act - Requires all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to approximately 14,408 acres of land generally depicted on the map entitled "Oregon Coastal Land Conveyance," dated March 27, 2013 (Oregon Coastal land) to be held in trust for, and to be part of the reservation of, the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians (Tribes).

Applies federal law relating to the export of unprocessed logs harvested from federal land to any unprocessed logs harvested from such land. Prohibits gaming on such land. Requires commercial forestry activity on such land to be managed in accordance with applicable federal laws. Exempts such land from the land use planning requirements of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976.

Directs the Tribes to consult with the Secretary of the Interior and other parties to develop agreements to provide for access to such land that provide for: (1) honoring existing reciprocal right-of-way agreements, (2) administrative access by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and (3) management of any such land acquired or developed under the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 in accordance with such Act.

Directs the Secretary to: (1) identify any such land that is Oregon and California Railroad grant land, (2) identify public domain land in Oregon that is approximately equal in acreage and condition to such Oregon and California Railroad grant land, and (3) reclassify such public domain land as Oregon and California Railroad grant land.

Date: 2014-09-17
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Cow Creek Umpqua Land Conveyance Act - Requires all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to approximately 17,519 acres of land generally depicted on the map entitled "Canyon Mountain Land Conveyance," dated June 27, 2013 (Council Creek land), to be held in trust for, and to be part of the reservation of, the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians.

Applies federal law relating to the export of unprocessed logs harvested from federal land to any unprocessed logs that are harvested from such land. Prohibits gaming on such land. Requires any forestry activity on such land to be managed in accordance with applicable federal laws.

Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) identify any such land that is Oregon and California Railroad grant land, (2) identify public domain land in Oregon that is approximately equal in acreage and condition to such Oregon and California Railroad grant land, and (3) reclassify such public domain land as Oregon and California Railroad grant land.

Date: 2014-09-17
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Duckwater Shoshone Land Conveyance Act - Requires that approximately 25,977 acres of land in Nevada administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) be held in trust for the benefit of the Duckwater Shoshone Tribe as part of the Tribe's reservation.

Directs the Secretary of the Interior to complete a survey of the boundary lines to establish the boundaries of the land taken into trust.

Prohibits class II or class III gaming on such land.

Date: 2014-09-18
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
Albuquerque Indian School Land Transfer Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to take into trust 4 tracts of federal land in New Mexico, the combined acreage of which is approximately 11.11 acres, that were historically part of the Albuquerque Indian School for the benefit of 19 specified pueblos immediately after the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) have been satisfied regarding the trust acquisition of such federal land.

Instructs the Secretary to: (1) take such action as determined to be necessary to document such transfer, and (2) appropriately assign each applicable private and municipal utility and service right or agreement.

Requires the federal lands taken into trust to be used for the educational, health, cultural, business, and economic development of the 19 pueblos.

Requires the federal lands taken into trust to remain subject to any private or municipal encumbrance, right-of-way, restriction, easement of record, or utility service agreement in effect on this Act's enactment date.

Requires the 19 pueblos to allow the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to continue to use the federal lands taken into trust for the facilities and purposes as in existence on this Act's enactment date.

Prohibits any class I, class II, or class III gaming from being carried out on the federal lands taken into trust under this Act.

Date: 2014-09-18
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
Allows the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma to lease, sell, convey, warrant, or transfer all or any part of its interests in any real property that is not held in trust by the United States for the tribe.

Date: 2014-11-12
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to convey to the Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation in Bethel, Alaska, all interest of the United States in certain property (including all land and appurtenances) containing 22.98 acres, for use in connection with health and social services programs.

Shields the Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation from being liable for soil, surface water, groundwater, or other contamination resulting from the disposal, release, or presence of environmental contamination, including oil or petroleum products, or hazardous substances on any of the property.

Accords to HHS any easement or access to the conveyed property as may be necessary to satisfy any retained obligations and liability.

Date: 2014-11-18
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Native American Languages Reauthorization Act of 2014 - Amends the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to reauthorize through FY2019 and revise a grant program administered by the Administration for Native Americans at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to ensure the survival and continuing vitality of Native American languages.

Decreases the required minimum number of enrollees in educational programs funded by the grant program from:

 10 to 5 enrollees in Native American language nests, and 15 to 10 enrollees in the Native American language survival schools. Changes the duration of grants provided under the program.

Date: 2014-11-20
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
Southeast Alaska Native Land Conveyance Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey to Sealaska, the regional Alaska Native Corporation for southeast Alaska, specified federal land as partial fulfillment of its remaining land entitlement under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA).

Identifies the lands to be conveyed as 2 parcels of federal land comprising approximately 3,380 acres that are generally depicted on certain Sealaska Land Entitlement Finalization maps.

Subjects that conveyance to valid existing rights and the Secretary's identification and reservation, within two years of this Act's enactment, of public easements under the ANCSA.

Date: 2013-02-26
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Hill Creek Cultural Preservation and Energy Development Act - Authorizes Utah to relinquish for the benefit of the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation certain of its school trust or subsurface mineral lands south of the border between Grand County and Uintah County, Utah, in exchange for certain federal subsurface mineral lands north of that border.

Directs the Secretary of the Interior to reserve an overriding interest in that portion of the mineral estate composed of minerals subject to leasing under the Mineral Leasing Act in the mineral lands conveyed to Utah. Delineates the extent of that interest.

Requires Utah to reserve, for the benefit of its school trust, an overriding interest in that portion of the mineral estate composed of minerals subject to leasing under the Mineral Leasing Act in the mineral lands it relinquished to the federal government. Delineates the extent of that interest.

Date: 2013-01-22
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
Huna Tlingit Traditional Gull Egg Use Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to allow members of the Hoonah Indian Association to collect the eggs of glaucous-winged gulls up to two times a year at up to five locations within Alaska's Glacier Bay National Park.

Considers the collection of those eggs within the Park by the Association to be a use specifically permitted by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act.

Requires collection schedules and locations to be based on an annual plan prepared by the Secretary and the Association.

Date: 2013-01-28
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians Restoration Act of 2013 - Extends federal recognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana. Makes the Tribe and each member eligible for all services and benefits provided by the United States to Indians and federally recognized Indian tribes, without regard to the existence of a reservation for the Tribe or the location of the residence of any member on or near an Indian reservation.

Considers the federal service area of the Tribe to be the area comprised of Blaine, Cascade, Glacier, and Hill Counties, Montana.

 Directs the Tribe, as a condition of receiving recognition, services, and benefits pursuant to this Act, to submit to the Secretary of the Interior a membership roll consisting of the name of each individual enrolled as a member of the Tribe. Requires the Tribe to maintain such membership roll.

Directs the Secretary to acquire, for the benefit of the Tribe, trust title to 200 acres of land within the Tribe's service area to be used for a tribal land base.

Authorizes the Secretary to acquire additional land for the benefit of the Tribe pursuant to the Indian Reorganization Act.

Date: 2013-01-28
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
Indian Trust Asset Reform Act - Reaffirms the federal government's fiduciary responsibilities to Indians.

States that: (1) the most exacting common law fiduciary standards governing private trustees also govern the federal government when it manages Indian Trust Assets, and (2) those standards are not limited to the express terms of statutes and regulations.

Indian Trust Asset Management Demonstration Project Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish an eight-year Indian trust asset management demonstration project that allows Indian tribes to propose, for the Secretary's approval, Indian trust asset management plans.

Allows participating Indian tribes that contract or compact trust management functions or activities under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to develop and carry out trust asset management systems, practices, and procedures that differ from the Secretary's.

Requires each plan to: (1) be consistent with all tribal laws and all federal treaties, statutes, executive orders, and court decisions applicable to the trust assets and their management; (2) establish procedures for nonbinding mediation or resolution of any plan-related disputes between the Indian tribe and the federal government; (3) include an annual evaluation by the Indian tribe and affected federal agencies of the plan's implementation; and (4) identify any federal regulations that the plan will supersede.

Prohibits the approval of any plan that does not: (1) protect trust assets from loss, waste, and unlawful alienation; and (2) promote the interests of the trust asset's beneficial owner.

Establishes, in the Department of the Interior, an Under Secretary for Indian Affairs who is to report directly to the Secretary and assume the functions of the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs and the Office of Special Trustee for American Indians.

Requires the Office of the Under Secretary to carry out additional duties relating to the management of Indian trust assets and resources through an Office of Trust Reform Implementation and Oversight.

Requires the Under Secretary to give a hiring preference to Indians.

Date: 2013-01-28
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Land Transfer Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to convey to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium specified property in Anchorage, Alaska, for use in connection with health and related programs.

Date: 2013-02-07
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Better Health in the Arctic Act - Directs the Arctic Research Commission to examine the science base, gaps in knowledge, and strategies for the prevention and treatment of mental, behavioral, and physical health problems, including alcohol abuse, faced by populations in the Arctic, with a focus on Alaska.

Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a national Arctic health science policy, reviewing and taking into consideration the National Arctic Health Science Policy developed by the American Public Health Association Task Force in 1984.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish a Desk for Arctic Health to: (1) work with the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee to ensure adequate health representation from federal agencies, (2) collaborate and consult with governmental entities and U.S. nongovernmental organizations involved in Arctic health issues, and (3) collaborate with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research on indigenous Arctic people health issues.

Directs the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to establish a program at the National Center of Environmental Health to foster advances and help provide technical support in the field of Arctic health impact assessments.

Date: 2013-02-11
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Health
Deems a claim submitted to an Indian Health Service contracting officer pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act on or before October 31, 2005, involving a claim that accrued after October 1, 1995, and on or before September 30, 1999, to have been timely submitted.

Date: 2013-02-26
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Health
Amends the Siletz Tribe Indian Restoration Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to take into trust for the Siletz Tribe additional lands that lie within the original 1855 Siletz Coast Reservation and are located in Benton, Douglas, Lane, Lincoln, Tillamook, or Yamhill County in Oregon.

Requires such land to be considered and evaluated as an on-reservation acquisition and become part of the Tribe's reservation. (Off-reservation land acquisition requests require the Secretary to give greater scrutiny to the tribe's justification of the anticipated benefits from the acquisition.)

Prohibits gaming on lands taken into trust pursuant to this Act.

Date: 2013-02-28
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to accept title to any additional number of acres of real property located within the boundaries of the original 1857 reservation of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon (comprising land within the political boundaries of Polk and Yamhill Counties, Oregon), if such real property is conveyed or otherwise transferred to the United States by or on behalf of the Tribe.

States that: (1) the Secretary shall treat all applications to take land into trust within the boundaries of the original 1857 reservation as an on-reservation trust acquisition, and (2) all real property taken into trust within those boundaries after September 9, 1988, shall be part of the Tribe's reservation.

Date: 2013-02-28
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
Tribal Gaming Eligibility Act - Amends the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to place restrictions on the conduct of gaming on lands taken into trust for an Indian tribe after October 17, 1988, as part of the settlement of a land claim, initial reservation of a newly recognized tribe, or restoration of lands for a tribe that has its federal recognition restored.

Prohibits gaming on such lands, with specified exceptions, unless the Secretary of the Interior determines that the land is eligible for gaming and the tribe demonstrates: (1) a substantial, direct, modern connection to the land as of October 17, 1988; and (2) a substantial, direct, aboriginal connection to the land. (The Secretary and the state in which the gaming is proposed can still allow gaming on lands acquired for a tribe after October 17, 1988, if they concur that it is in the best interest of the tribe and its members.)

Date: 2013-03-06
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the Senate on January 28, 2014. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Sandia Pueblo Settlement Technical Amendment Act - Amends the T'uf Shur Bien Preservation Trust Area Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary), at the request of the Sandia Pueblo of New Mexico and the Secretary of the Interior, to transfer certain National Forest land to the Secretary of the Interior to be held in trust for the Pueblo, if a land exchange with the Pueblo required by that Act is not completed within 30 days of this Act's enactment.

Requires such National Forest land to remain undeveloped in its natural state.

Directs the Secretary of the Interior, with the consent of the Pueblo and after the transfer of the National Forest land is complete, to: (1) transfer to the Secretary the Pueblo's La Luz tract and a conservation easement on its Piedra Lisa tract, and (2) grant to the Secretary a right-of-way for the Piedra Lisa Trail within the Piedra Lisa tract.

Date: 2013-03-19
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
Hawaiian Homeownership Opportunity Act of 2013 - Amends the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 and the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to extend through FY2017 the authorization of appropriations for housing assistance for Native Hawaiians and loan guarantees for Native Hawaiian housing.

Date: 2013-03-21
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
Withdraws 5,100 acres of land near White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Reserves the land for use by the Army for military purposes. Requires the Secretary of the Army to reimburse the Secretary of the Interior for any costs in implementing this Act with respect to this land.

Withdraws 37,600 acres of land near Fort Bliss in Texas and New Mexico. Allows the issuance of oil and gas pipeline rights of way on part of this land.

Revokes the withdrawal of 2,050 acres of land (part of Fillmore Canyon located in New Mexico) that was reserved for the Army's use. Gives the Secretary of the Interior authority for managing this land.

Date: 2013-04-17
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Native American Indian Education Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to pay institutions of higher education the out-of-state tuition of their Indian students if the schools are required to provide a tuition-free education, with the support of their state, to Native American Indian students in fulfillment of a condition under which the college or state received its original grant of land and facilities from the federal government.

Limits that payment each fiscal year to the institution's total out-of-state tuition for Native American Indian students in academic year 2012-2013.

Treats such payments as reimbursements to such institutions from their states.

Rescinds unobligated discretionary appropriations to offset the costs of this program.

Date: 2013-04-18
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
Maple Tapping Access Program Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to make grants to states and tribal governments to promote the domestic maple syrup industry through: (1) promotion of research and education, (2) promotion of natural resource sustainability, (3) market promotion, and (4) encouragement of owners and operators of privately held land to initiate or expand maple-sugaring activities or to voluntarily make the land available to the public for maple-sugaring activities.

Defines "maple-sugaring" as the collection of sap from any species of tree in the genus Acer for the purpose of boiling to produce food.

Date: 2013-05-07
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to tax administration requirements for foreign-source income and assets, to repeal:  (1) withholding requirements for payments to foreign financial institutions and other foreign entities, (2) information reporting for foreign financial assets, (3) penalties for underpayments of tax attributable to undisclosed foreign financial assets, (4) reporting requirements for shareholders of a passive foreign investment company and U.S. owners of foreign trusts, and (5) the additional penalty for failure to file required notices and information returns for certain foreign trusts.

Date: 2013-05-07
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Taxation
Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Non-Intercourse Act of 2013 - Authorizes the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in Minnesota to lease, sell, convey, warrant, or otherwise transfer all or any portion of its interest in any real property that is not held in trust by the United States for the Band's benefit.

Date: 2013-05-09
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
Lumbee Recognition Act - Extends federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, which makes its members eligible for the services and benefits provided to Indians because of their status as members of a federally recognized tribe.

Deems members of the Tribe residing in Robeson, Cumberland, Hoke, and Scotland Counties in North Carolina to be within the delivery area for such services.

Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust for the Tribe.

Prohibits the Tribe from conducting gaming activities.

Requires North Carolina to exercise jurisdiction over all criminal offenses committed, and all civil actions that arise, on North Carolina lands owned by, or held in trust for, the Lumbee Tribe or any dependent Indian community of the Tribe.

Date: 2013-06-11
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
Elko Motocross and Tribal Conveyance Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey to Elko County, Nevada, without consideration, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to approximately 275 acres of land managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Elko District, Nevada, as depicted on the map as "Elko Motocross Park." Requires the land conveyed to be used only: (1) as a motocross, bicycle, off-highway vehicle, or stock car racing area; or (2) for any other public purpose consistent with the Recreation and Public Purposes Act.

Holds approximately 373 acres of BLM administered land in trust for the Te-moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada. Makes such land part of the Tribe's reservation. Prohibits class II or III gaming on such land. Limits the use of such land to: (1) traditional and customary uses, (2) stewardship conservation for the benefit of the Tribe, and (3) residential or recreational development. Requires the Tribe to pay the Secretary of the Interior the fair market value of any portion of such land used for another purpose.

Date: 2013-06-13
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Oregon Coastal Land Conveyance Act - Holds in trust for the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to approximately 14,804 acres of federal land generally depicted on the map entitled "Oregon Coastal Land Conveyance," dated March 27, 2013.

Makes that land part of the Tribes' reservation.

Applies federal law relating to the export of unprocessed logs harvested from federal land to any unprocessed logs that are harvested from the federal land conveyed to the Tribes.

Prohibits gaming on those lands.

Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the Oregon and California Railroad public domain land that is located within a specified planning area and is approximately equal in acreage and condition to Railroad land that this Act conveys to the Tribes.

Date: 2013-07-31
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Canyon Mountain Land Conveyance Act of 2013 - Holds in trust for the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians (Tribe) all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to approximately 17,826 acres of federal land generally depicted on the map entitled "Canyon Mountain Land Conveyance," dated June 27, 2013.

Makes that land part of the Tribe's reservation.

Applies federal law relating to the export of unprocessed logs harvested from federal land to any unprocessed logs that are harvested from the federal land conveyed to the Tribe.

Prohibits gaming on those lands.

Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the Oregon and California Railroad public domain land that is located within a specified planning area and is approximately equal in acreage and condition to Railroad land that this Act conveys to the Tribe.

Date: 2013-07-31
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the Senate on August 26, 2014. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

New Mexico Navajo Water Settlement Technical Corrections Act - (Sec. 2) Amends the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to expand the current authorization for the construction or rehabilitation and operation and maintenance of conjunctive use wells in the San Juan River Basin, Little Colorado River Basin, and Rio Grande Basin in New Mexico to include the planning and design of those wells.

Revises the percentages of funds authorized for the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project, conjunctive use wells, and San Juan River Irrigation Projects that may be made available for specified purposes by:

 increasing from 2% to 4% the portion of funds that may be used for the survey, recovery, protection, preservation, and display of archaeological resources in the area of a Project facility or conjunctive use well; and decreasing from 4% to 2% the portion of funds that may be used for purchasing land and constructing and maintaining facilities to mitigate the loss of, and improve conditions for the propagation of, fish and wildlife. Makes technical corrections.

Date: 2013-08-01
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation Equitable Compensation Act - (Section 5) Establishes the Spokane Tribe of Indians Recovery Trust Fund. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to deposit $53 million into the Fund.

Requires payments from the Fund to the Spokane Business Council in compensation for the use of tribal lands for the generation of hydropower from the Grand Coulee Dam. (The Spokane Business Council is the Spokane Tribe's governing body.)

Requires the Council to prepare a plan for the use of those payments to promote: (1) economic development; (2) infrastructure development; (3) educational, health, recreational, and social welfare objectives of the Tribe and its members; or (4) any combination of those activities.

(Sec. 6) Directs the Bonneville Power Administration to make annual payments under the Colville Settlement Agreement to the Spokane Tribe.

Requires the Administration to: (1) make commensurate cost reductions in expenditures on an annual basis to recover each payment to the Tribe, and (2) include any such cost reduction in its annual budget.

(Sec. 7) Specifies the tax treatment of payments made to the Council or Tribe and the interest and income generated by those payments.

(Sec. 9) Provides that the deposit of amounts in the Fund extinguishes all monetary claims that the Tribe may have against the United States to a fair share of the annual hydropower revenues generated by the Grand Coulee Dam project for the past and continued use of the Tribe's land to produce hydropower at Grand Coulee Dam.

(Sec. 10) Declares that nothing in this Act establishes any precedent or is binding on the Southwestern Power Administration, Western Area Power Administration, or Southeastern Power Administration.

Date: 2013-08-01
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the Senate on December 9, 2014. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 Amends the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 to repeal a provision prohibiting Alaska tribes other than the Metlakatla Indian Community from issuing and enforcing domestic violence protective orders against non-member Alaska Natives and non-Natives.

Date: 2013-08-01
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act of 2013 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to provide that any enterprise or institution owned and operated by an Indian tribe and located on its lands is not considered an employer (thus excluding such enterprises or institutions from coverage by such Act).

Date: 2013-08-01
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
Tribal General Welfare Exclusion Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income, for income tax purposes, the value of an Indian general welfare benefit. Defines "Indian general welfare benefit" as any payment made or services provided to or on behalf of a member of an Indian tribe under an Indian tribal government program if: (1) such program is administered under specified guidelines and does not discriminate in favor of members of the governing body of the Indian tribe; and (2) the program benefits are available to any tribal member, are for the promotion of general welfare, are not lavish or extravagant, and are not compensation for services.

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) establish a Tribal Advisory Committee to advise the Secretary on the taxation of Indians, (2) establish and require training and education for Internal Revenue Service (IRS) field agents on federal Indian law and the implementation of this Act, and (3) suspend audits and examinations of Indian tribal governments and members of Indian tribes and waive any interest or tax penalties related to the exclusion from gross income of Indian general welfare benefits.

Date: 2013-09-17
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Taxation
Indian Health Service Advance Appropriations Act of 2013 - Amends the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to require that for each fiscal year, beginning with FY2015, discretionary new budget authority for the Indian Health Services and Indian Health Facilities accounts of the Indian Health Service includes advance discretionary new budget authority for the following fiscal year.

Directs the Secretary of the Interior to include in documents submitted to Congress in support of the President's budget for each of those fiscal years detailed estimates of the funds needed for such accounts for the fiscal year following the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted.

Requires the President's budget to include information on estimates of those advanced appropriations.

Date: 2013-10-10
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to define an "Indian" for purposes of title I (Quality, Affordable Health Care for All Americans) of that Act.

Includes within that definition an individual who is:

 a member of a federally-recognized Indian tribe; an Eskimo, Aleut, or other Alaska Native; considered by the Secretary of the Interior to be an Indian for any purpose, including eligibility for Indian health care services; a member of a tribe, band, or other organized group of Indians or who is a descendant, in the first or second degree, of any such member; determined to be an Indian under regulations promulgated by the Secretary; an urban center resident who fits any of the preceding categories; eligible for health services provided by the Indian Health Service (IHS); or of Indian descent and a member of an Indian community served by the IHS.

Date: 2013-10-16
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Health
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Gun Lake Trust Land Reaffirmation Act - Ratifies and confirms the actions of the Secretary of the Interior in taking specified land into trust for the benefit of the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatami Indians.

Reaffirms that land as trust land.

Prohibits an action relating to that land from being filed or maintained in a federal court.

Date: 2013-10-29
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Native Americans
Native Small Business Conformity Act of 2013 - Amends the Small Business Act to extend eligibility for HUBZone (historically underutilized business zone) status to a small business concern that is owned and controlled by a Native Hawaiian Organization.

Date: 2013-10-29
Topic: Public Lands (Indigenous Affairs)
Subject: Commerce