Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act
Latest action · Dec 16, 2024 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 718.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJul 19, 2023
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act
This bill allows five Alaska Native communities in Southeast Alaska to form urban corporations and receive land entitlements.
Specifically, the bill allows the Alaska Native residents of each of the Alaska Native villages of Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell, Alaska, to organize as Alaska Native urban corporations and to receive certain settlement land.
The bill directs the Department of the Interior to convey specified land to each urban corporation. Further, Interior must convey the subsurface estate for that land to the regional corporation for Southeast Alaska.
The land conveyed to each urban corporation must include any U.S. interest in all roads, trails, log transfer facilities, leases, and appurtenances on or related to the land conveyed to the urban corporation.
The bill also allows each urban corporation to establish a settlement trust to (1) promote the health, education, and welfare of the trust beneficiaries; and (2) preserve the Alaska Native heritage and culture of their communities.
Cosponsors 3
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 19, 2023 to Dec 14, 2023; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-MN | Pete Stauber | Original | Jul 19, 2023 |
| R-GU | James C. Moylan | Dec 4, 2023 | |
| R-PR | Jenniffer González-Colón | Dec 14, 2023 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Referred Jul 19, 2023Discharged Nov 20, 2024Markup Nov 20, 2024Reported Dec 16, 2024 |
| Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee | Referred Nov 28, 2023Hearings Dec 5, 2023 |
Actions 9
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 16, 2024Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 118-881.
- Dec 16, 2024Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 718.
- Nov 20, 2024Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs Discharged
- Nov 20, 2024Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Nov 20, 2024Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
- Dec 5, 2023Subcommittee Hearings Held
- Nov 28, 2023Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs.
- Jul 19, 2023Introduced in House
- Jul 19, 2023Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee report
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 169, no. 124, July 19, 2023, page H3859.
Printed hearings 2
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 1889 | Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act | Related bill | Sep 10, 2024 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To provide for the recognition of certain Alaska Native communities and the settlement of certain claims under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act
- Short Title(s) as Reported to House
- Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Native Americans.
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 16, 2024Reported in House
- Jul 19, 2023Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
