S. 4813

A bill to authorize leases of up to 99 years for land held in trust for federally recognized Indian Tribes.

Sponsor: Thom Tillis · 0 cosponsors

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Introduced Jun 17
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Introduced Jun 17
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (Jun 17)

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Official summary

Written by the Congressional Research Service.

This bill authorizes any federally recognized Indian tribe to lease their land held in trust for a term of up to 99 years.

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Sec. 1. Federally recognized tribe leasing authority

Subsection (a) of the first section of the Act of August 9, 1955 (69 Stat. 539, chapter 615; 25 U.S.C. 415(a)), is amended, in the second sentence, by inserting , land held in trust for any other Indian tribe included on the list published by the Secretary pursuant to section 104 of the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 5131) after Chehalis Reservation.