US Congress Senate Bill 2808 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-1)
Status: Introduced on November 7 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-11-07 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
Pending: Senate Indian Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Applies the Indian Reorganization Act to all federally recognized Indian tribes, regardless of when a tribe became recognized. The amendments made by this bill are retroactively effective as if included in the Indian Reorganization Act. This effectively overrules the Supreme Court's decision in Carcieri v. Salazar, which held that the Department of the Interior could not take land into trust for a specified tribe because that tribe had not been under federal jurisdiction when the Indian Reorganization Act was enacted.

A bill to amend the Act of June 18, 1934, to reaffirm the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust for Indian Tribes, and for other purposes.

Sen. Jon Tester [D-MT]	Sen. Jerry Moran [R-KS]	Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]	Sen. Doug Jones [D-AL]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]
Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI]	Sen. Tina Smith [D-MN]	Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]	Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto [D-NV]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-11-07	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

HB375 (Related) 2019-05-16 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/2808/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s2808/BILLS-116s2808is.pdf