Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025 passed the House 260 days after introduction and awaits a vote in the Senate
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 156 words.
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.
- Committees
- House Natural Resources Committee
Senate Indian Affairs Committee - Policy area
- Native Americans: 73 of 1,099 bills became law, 113th–118th (6.6%)
- Sponsor
- 3 of 90 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 5, from introduced in house to reported to senate · 483 words
- Subjects
- CaliforniaIndian lands and resources rightsLand transfers
- Latest action
- Sep 22, 2026: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 675.
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
Each bill appears once, under its strongest link. 1 in all.
Identical or companion · 1
- 119th S. 2735 Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025 D · Reported