3.0.0 1879 2023-01-11T13:30:02Z 2023-01-11T13:30:02Z Senate S 2015-07-28 114 slia00 Indian Affairs Committee Senate Other Reported by 2016-06-09T22:53:35Z Markup by 2015-12-02T19:34:08Z Referred to 2015-07-28T22:13:39Z S. Rept. 114-275 2016-06-09 Senate Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 514. Calendars 2016-06-09 slia00 Indian Affairs Committee Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Barrasso with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 114-275. Minority views filed. Committee 2016-06-09 Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Barrasso with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 114-275. Minority views filed. Committee 14000 9 Library of Congress slia00 Indian Affairs Committee 2015-12-02 slia00 Indian Affairs Committee Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. Committee 2015-07-28 slia00 Indian Affairs Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. IntroReferral 2015-07-28 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B001261 Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY] John Barrasso R WY N 2016-05-31T21:53:18Z S. 1879, Interior Improvement Act https://www.cbo.gov/publication/51643 As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on December 2, 2015 Native Americans Economic performance and conditions Federal-Indian relations Indian lands and resources rights Judicial review and appeals Land transfers Native Americans 00 2015-07-28 Introduced in Senate 2016-03-25T20:47:34Z Interior Improvement Act

This bill amends the Indian Reorganization Act to expand the definition of Indian to include members of Indian tribes that were federally recognized after June 18, 1934. Trust acquisitions by the Department of the Interior for tribes recognized after June 18, 1934, are ratified and confirmed.

Indian tribes and individual Indians may apply to Interior to have off-reservation land taken into trust for the benefit of that Indian tribe or individual Indian. An application must include specified information, including a description of the need for the proposed acquisition and the purpose for which the property is to be used.

Interior must publish these applications and notify jurisdictions contiguous to land included in an application.

Interior must encourage applicants to enter into cooperative agreements with contiguous jurisdictions and must give preference to applications with cooperative agreements. An application with a cooperative agreement is automatically approved if Interior does not make a decision on the application within a specified number of days.

In making a decision on an application that does not include a cooperative agreement, Interior must consider whether anticipated economic impacts on contiguous jurisdictions have been mitigated and whether contiguous jurisdictions failed to work in good faith to reach an agreement with the applicant.]]> 01 2016-06-09 Reported to Senate with amendment(s) 2017-02-27T13:44:10Z Interior Improvement Act

(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Indian Reorganization Act to expand the definition of Indian to include members of Indian tribes that were federally recognized after June 18, 1934. Trust acquisitions by the Department of the Interior for tribes recognized after June 18, 1934, are ratified and confirmed.

(Sec. 3) Indian tribes and individual Indians may apply to Interior to have off-reservation land taken into trust for the benefit of that tribe or individual. An application must include specified information, including a description of the need for the proposed acquisition and the purpose for which the property is to be used.

Interior must publish these applications and notify jurisdictions contiguous to land included in an application.

Interior must encourage applicants to enter into cooperative agreements with contiguous jurisdictions. An application with a cooperative agreement is automatically approved if Interior does not make a decision on the application within a specified number of days.

In making a decision on an application that does not include a cooperative agreement, Interior must determine whether anticipated impacts on contiguous jurisdictions have been mitigated and consider whether contiguous jurisdictions failed to work in good faith to reach an agreement with the applicant.]]> Interior Improvement Act Display Title Interior Improvement Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to improve processes in the Department of the Interior, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Interior Improvement Act Short Titles as Reported to Senate Interior Improvement Act S Senate Reported to Senate 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114s1879rs/xml/BILLS-114s1879rs.xml Introduced in Senate 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114s1879is/xml/BILLS-114s1879is.xml 2016-06-09 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 514. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.