Federal · 119th Congress
Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025
Policy areaNative Americans
Summary
This bill takes approximately 265 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 80 acres of federal land managed by Interior's Bureau of Land Management (which includes the land transferred from the Forest Service), and (2) approximately 185 acres of fee land held by the tribe. These combined lands, approximately 265 acres, shall be part of the tribe's reservation. Further, the bill prohibits gaming on the land taken into trust.
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A bill 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.Official Title as Introduced
Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025Short Title(s) as IntroducedShort Title(s) as Reported to Senate
Legislative history5
Sep 22, 2026
SenatePlaced on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 674.
Sep 22, 2026
Senate · CommitteeCommittee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Murkowski without amendment. With written report No. 119-149.
May 20, 2026
Senate · CommitteeCommittee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Dec 17, 2025
Senate · CommitteeCommittee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held.
Sep 8, 2025
SenateReferred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S6403)
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