Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025
Latest action · Sep 22, 2026 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 675.
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.
- IntroducedMar 24, 2025
- Passed HouseDec 9, 2025
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025
This bill takes approximately 204.14 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 85.3 acres of federal land managed by Interior's Bureau of Land Management (which includes the land transferred 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.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 2
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 Mar 24, 2025Discharged Jul 23, 2025Markup Jul 23, 2025Reported Sep 15, 2025 |
| Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee | Referred Apr 23, 2025Hearings Apr 30, 2025 | |
| Senate | Indian Affairs Committee | Referred Dec 10, 2025Markup May 20, 2026Reported Sep 22, 2026 |
Actions 18
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 22, 2026Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Murkowski without amendment. With written report No. 119-150.
- Sep 22, 2026Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 675.
- May 20, 2026Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
- Dec 10, 2025Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
- Dec 9, 2025Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5071)
- Dec 9, 2025Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Dec 9, 2025Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5071-5073)
- Dec 9, 2025DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2302.
- Dec 9, 2025Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Sep 15, 2025Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-286.
- Sep 15, 2025Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 242.
- Jul 23, 2025Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs Discharged
- Jul 23, 2025Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Jul 23, 2025Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
- Apr 30, 2025Subcommittee Hearings Held
- Apr 23, 2025Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs.
- Mar 24, 2025Introduced in House
- Mar 24, 2025Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H5071–H5073Text printed H5071 | Bruce Westerman R-AR, Emily Randall D-WA, Tom McClintock R-CA | Dec 9, 2025 |
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 reports
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Aug 17, 2026H.R. 2302, Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on May 20, 2026
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 53, March 24, 2025, page H1219.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 119-20 | LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON H.R. 1451, QUAPAW TRIBAL SETTLEMENT ACT OF 2025; H.R. 2302, SHINGLE SPRINGS BAND OF MIWOK INDIANS LAND TRANSFER ACT OF 2025; H.R. 2389, QUINAULT INDIAN NATION LAND TRANSFER ACT; AND H.R. 2400, PIT RIVER LAND TRANSFER ACT OF 202550 pages | Natural Resources Committee | Apr 30, 2025 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 2735 | Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025 | Related bill | Sep 22, 2026 |
Titles 7
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- 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.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025
- Short Title(s) as Reported to House
- Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025
- Short Title(s) as Reported to Senate
- Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025
- Short Title(s) as Passed House
- Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025
- Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text
- Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025
- Official Title from EH (Engrossed in House) bill text
- 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.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Native Americans.
Text 5
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 22, 2026Reported to Senate
- Dec 10, 2025Referred in Senate
- Dec 9, 2025Engrossed in House
- Sep 15, 2025Reported in House
- Mar 24, 2025Introduced 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.
