Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Land Claim Settlement Act of 2025
Latest action · Dec 15, 2025 Held at the desk.
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.
- IntroducedFeb 19, 2025
- Passed SenateDec 11, 2025
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Land Claim Settlement Act of 2025
This bill directs the Department of the Interior to transfer funds to the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) in Baraga County, Michigan, in order to settle the KBIC's land claims and clear title to those lands.
The KBIC may use these funds for any lawful purpose except to acquire land for gaming.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Feb 19, 2025.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MI | Elissa Slotkin | Original | Feb 19, 2025 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Indian Affairs Committee | Referred Feb 20, 2025Markup Mar 5, 2025Reported Sep 29, 2025 |
Actions 9
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 15, 2025Received in the House.
- Dec 15, 2025Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- Dec 15, 2025Held at the desk.
- Dec 11, 2025Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8688-8689; text: CR S8688-8689)
- Sep 29, 2025Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Murkowski without amendment. With written report No. 119-70.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S8684Text printed S8688 | John Thune R-SD | Dec 11, 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 report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- May 28, 2025S. 642, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Land Claim Settlement Act of 2025As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on March 5, 2025
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 411 | Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Land Claim Settlement Act of 2025 | Related bill | Jun 11, 2025 |
Titles 4
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to provide compensation to the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community for the taking without just compensation of land by the United States inside the exterior boundaries of the L'Anse Indian Reservation that were guaranteed to the Community under a treaty signed in 1854, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Land Claim Settlement Act of 2025
- Short Title(s) as Reported to Senate
- Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Land Claim Settlement Act of 2025
- Short Title(s) as Passed Senate
- Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Land Claim Settlement Act of 2025
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Native Americans.
Text 3
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 11, 2025Engrossed in Senate
- Sep 29, 2025Reported to Senate
- Feb 19, 2025Introduced in Senate
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.
