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<meta><dc:title>119 HR 42 ENR: To amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to exclude certain payments to aged, blind, or disabled Alaska Natives or descendants of Alaska Natives from being used to determine eligibility for certain programs, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<preface><dc:type>H. R.</dc:type><docNumber>42</docNumber>

<congress style="-uslm-lc:I665502" value="119">One Hundred Nineteenth Congress of the United States of America</congress><session style="-uslm-lc:I665503" value="1">A T T  H  E F  I  R  S  T S  E  S  S  I  O  N</session>
<enrolledDateline style="-uslm-lc:I665504">Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday, the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-five</enrolledDateline>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize18" style="-uslm-lc:I665505">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="centered fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I665511">To amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to exclude certain payments to aged, blind, or disabled Alaska Natives or descendants of Alaska Natives from being used to determine eligibility for certain programs, and for other purposes.<?GPOvSpace 08?></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><i>  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</i></enactingFormula>
<section id="d2148e62" identifier="/us/bill/119/hr/42/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I650146"><num class="bold" value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="act">Alaska Native Settlement Trust Eligibility Act</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
<section id="d2148e72" identifier="/us/bill/119/hr/42/s2" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num class="bold" value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>ELIGIBILITY FOR CERTAIN PROGRAMS.</heading><content class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="x82a297b1-7cbe-11f1-acc3-55210b6559dc" style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  Section 29(c) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t43/s1626/c">43 U.S.C. 1626(c)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>, in the undesignated matter following paragraph (3), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subparagraph (E) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following:<quotedContent><subparagraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y82a2bec2-7cbe-11f1-acc3-55210b6559dc" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="E">“(E) </num><content>an interest in a Settlement Trust and, for the 5-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of the Alaska Native Settlement Trust Eligibility Act, an amount distributed from or benefit provided by a Settlement Trust to a Native or descendant of a Native who is an aged, blind, or disabled individual (as defined in section 1614(a) of the Social Security Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t42/s1382c/a">42 U.S.C. 1382c(a)</ref>)).”</content></subparagraph>
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<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Speaker of the House of Representatives.</role></signature>
<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Vice President of the United States and  President of the Senate.</role></signature>
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