S. 2735 Senate Native Americans
Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025
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Currently in the Senate. Last action: placed on senate legislative calendar under general orders. calendar no. 674 on Sep 22, 2026.
- Senate Introduced in Senate Sep 8, 2025
- Senate Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S6403) Sep 8, 2025
- Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Dec 17, 2025
- Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably. May 20, 2026
- Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Murkowski without amendment. With written report No. 119-149. Sep 22, 2026
- Senate Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 674. Sep 22, 2026
Cosponsors
1
Subjects
CaliforniaIndian lands and resources rightsLand transfers
Committees
- Indian Affairs Committee
- [Reported By, Sep 22, 2026]
- [Markup By, May 20, 2026]
- [Hearings By (full committee), Dec 17, 2025]
- [Referred To, Sep 8, 2025]
Summary
Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025This bill takes approximately 265 acres of specified lands in El Dorado County, California, into trust for the benefit of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians.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.)The bill directs Interior to take the following lands into trust for the benefit of the tribe: (1) approximately 80 acres of federal land managed by Interior's Bureau of Land Management (which includes the land transferred from the Forest Service), and (2) approximately 185 acres of fee land held by the tribe. These combined lands, approximately 265 acres, shall be part of the tribe's reservation. Further, the bill prohibits gaming on the land taken into trust.
[Summary as of: Introduced in Senate]
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