Bills Referred To The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
S.RES.19
(Sen McCain) An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.
Latest Major Action: 1/26/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
S.J.RES.15
(Brownback) A joint resolution to acknowledge a long history of official depredations and ill-conceived policies by the United States Government regarding Indian tribes and offer an apology to all Native Peoples on behalf of the United States.
Latest Major Action: 5/25/2005 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held.
S.113
(Feinstein) A bill to modify the date as of which certain tribal land of the Lytton Rancheria of California is deemed to be held in trust.
Latest Major Action: 4/5/2005 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held.
S.147
(Akaka) A bill to express the policy of the United States regarding the United States relationship with Native Hawaiians and to provide a process for the recognition by the United States of the Native Hawaiian governing entity.
Latest Major Action: 5/16/2005 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 101.
S.215
(Inouye) A bill to amend the Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act to revise and extend that Act.
Latest Major Action: 1/31/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
S.279
(Sen Domenici) A bill to amend the Act of June 7, 1924, to provide for the exercise of criminal jurisdiction.
Latest Major Action: 2/3/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
S.374
(Thune) A bill to provide compensation to the Lower Brule and Crow Creek Sioux Tribes of South Dakota for damage to tribal land caused by Pick-Sloan projects along the Missouri River.
Latest Major Action: 2/14/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
S.412
(Dorgan) A bill to reauthorize the Native American Programs Act of 1974.
Latest Major Action: 2/16/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
S.437
(Levin) A bill to expedite review of the grand River Band of Ottawa Indians of Michigan to secure a timely and just determination of whether that group is entitled to recognition as a Federal Indian tribe.
Latest Major Action: 2/17/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
S.449
(Murkowski) A bill to facilitate shareholder consideration of proposals to make Settlement Common Stock under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act available to missed enrollees, eligible elders, and eligible persons born after December 18, 1971, and for other purposes.
Latest Major Action: 2/17/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
S.474
(Smith) A bill to establish the Mark O. Hatfield-Elizabeth Furse Scholarship and Excellence in Tribal Governance Foundation, and for other purposes.
Latest Major Action: 2/28/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
S.475
(Johnson) A bill to amend the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 and other Acts to improve housing for Indians.
Latest Major Action: 2/28/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
S.480
(Allen) A bill to extend Federal recognition to the Chickahominy Indian Tribe, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe--Eastern Division, the Upper Mattaponi Tribe, the Rappahannock Tribe, Inc., the Monacan Indian Nation, and the Nansemond Indian Tribe.
Latest Major Action: 3/1/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
S.535
(Inouye) A bill to establish grant programs for the development of telecommunications capacities in Indian country.
Latest Major Action: 3/7/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
S.536
(McCain) A bill to make technical corrections to laws relating to Native Americans, and for other purposes.
Latest Major Action: 5/12/2005 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 100.
S.598
(Inouye) A bill to reauthorize provisions in the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 relating to Native Hawaiian low-income housing and Federal loan guarantees for Native Hawaiian housing.
Latest Major Action: 3/10/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
S.623
(Hatch) A bill to direct the Secretary of Interior to convey certain land held in trust for the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah to the City of Richfield, Utah, and for other purposes.
Latest Major Action: 3/15/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
S.630
(Dodd) A bill to establish procedures for the acknowledgment of Indian tribes.
Latest Major Action: 3/15/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
S.631
(Dodd) A bill to provide grants to ensure full and fair participation in certain decisionmaking processes of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Latest Major Action: 3/15/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
S.660
(Dole) A bill to provide for the acknowledgement of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, and for other purposes.
Latest Major Action: 3/17/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
S.690
(Domenici)A bill to amend the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to provide from the Highway Trust Fund additional funding for Indian reservation roads, and for other purposes.
Latest Major Action: 4/4/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
S.692
(Domenici) A bill to provide for the conveyance of certain public land in northwestern New Mexico by resolving a dispute associated with coal preference right lease interests on the land.
Latest Major Action: 4/4/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
S.706
(Coleman) A bill to convey all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the land described in this Act to the Secretary of the Interior for the Prairie Island Indian Community in Minnesota.
Latest Major Action: 4/5/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
S.731
(Conrad) A bill to recruit and retain more qualified individuals to teach in Tribal Colleges or Universities.
Latest Major Action: 4/6/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
S.881
(Cantwell) A bill to provide for equitable compensation to the Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation for the use of tribal land for the production of hydropower by the Grand Coulee Dam, and for other purposes.
Latest Major Action: 4/21/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
S.972
(Bingaman) A bill to designate the Albuquerque Indian Health Center as a critical access facility and to provide funds for that Center.
Latest Major Action: 4/28/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
S.987
(McCain) A bill to restore safety to Indian women.
Latest Major Action: 5/10/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
S.1003
(McCain) A bill to amend the Act of December 22, 1974, and for other purposes.
Latest Major Action: 5/11/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
S.1057
(McCain) A bill to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to revise and extend that Act.
Latest Major Action: 5/17/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
S.1231
(McCain) A bill to amend the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to modify provisions relating to the National Fund for Excellence in American Indian Education.
Latest Major Action: 6/14/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
S.1239
(McCain) A bill to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to permit the Indian Health Service, an Indian tribe, a tribal organization, or an urban Indian organization to pay the monthly part D premium of eligible medicare beneficiaries.
Latest Major Action: 6/14/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
S.1260
(Vitter) A bill to make technical corrections to the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, and for other purposes.
Latest Major Action: 6/16/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
S.1291
(McCain) A bill to provide for the acquisition of subsurface mineral interests in land owned by the Pascua Yaqui Tribe and land held in trust for the Tribe.
Latest Major Action: 6/23/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
S.1295
(McCain) A bill to amend the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to provide for accountability and funding of the National Indian Gaming Commission.
Latest Major Action: 6/23/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
H.R.680
(Cannon) To direct the Secretary of Interior to convey certain land held in trust for the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah to the City of Richfield, Utah, and for other purposes.
Latest Major Action: 3/15/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
H.R.794
(Grijalva) To correct the south boundary of the Colorado River Indian Reservation in Arizona, and for other purposes.
Latest Major Action: 4/13/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
H.R.797
(Renzi) To amend the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 and other Acts to improve housing programs for Indians.
Latest Major Action: 4/7/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
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