United StatesUnrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act
What it does
This bill allows five Alaska Native communities in Southeast Alaska to form urban corporations and receive land entitlements.
More detail
Specifically, the bill allows the Alaska Native residents of each of the Alaska Native villages of Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell, Alaska, to organize as Alaska Native urban corporations and to receive certain settlement land.
The bill directs the Department of the Interior to convey specified land to each urban corporation. Further, Interior must convey the subsurface estate for that land to the regional corporation for Southeast Alaska.
The land conveyed to each urban corporation must include any U.S. interest in all roads, trails, log transfer facilities, leases, and appurtenances on or related to the land conveyed to the urban corporation.
The bill also allows each urban corporation to establish a settlement trust to (1) promote the health, education, and welfare of the trust beneficiaries; and (2) preserve the Alaska Native heritage and culture of their communities.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To President
- Became Law
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History
- 2026
- Jun 3Received in the Senate.Latest
- Jun 2Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Jun 2Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3746-3749)
- Jun 2DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 41.
- Jun 2Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3746-3749)Passed House
- Jun 2Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Apr 2Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-579.
- Apr 2Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 499.
- Mar 5Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Mar 5Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
- 2025
- Jan 3Introduced in House
- Jan 3Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.Introduced