3.0.0 521 2025-06-20T19:33:16Z 2025-06-20T19:33:16Z Senate S S 2023-02-16 118 slia00 Indian Affairs Committee Senate Other Referred To 2023-02-16T20:58:05Z 118 1101 HR 2024-12-18 Received in the Senate. Identical bill CRS 2023-02-16 slia00 Indian Affairs Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. IntroReferral 2023-02-16 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress T000476 Sen. Tillis, Thomas [R-NC] Thomas Tillis R NC Roland N B001305 Sen. Budd, Ted [R-NC] Ted Budd R NC 2023-02-16 True V000137 Sen. Vance, J. D. [R-OH] J. Vance R OH D. 2024-09-25 False Native Americans Federal-Indian relations 2023-05-10T18:15:18Z Indian lands and resources rights 2023-05-10T18:15:18Z North Carolina 2023-05-10T18:15:18Z Native Americans 2023-03-17T12:45:27Z

00 2023-02-16 Introduced in Senate 2023-04-06T18:13:49Z <p><b>Lumbee Fairness Act</b></p> <p>This bill extends federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina and makes its members eligible for the services and benefits provided to members of federally recognized tribes. </p> <p>Members of the tribe residing in Robeson, Cumberland, Hoke, and Scotland Counties in North Carolina are deemed to be within the delivery area for such services.</p> <p>The Department of the Interior and the Department of Health and Human Services must develop, in consultation with the tribe, a determination of needs to provide the services for which members of the tribe are eligible.</p> <p>Interior may take land into trust for the benefit of the tribe.</p> <p>Finally, North Carolina must exercise jurisdiction over all criminal offenses committed, and all civil actions that arise, on North Carolina lands owned by, or held in trust for, the Lumbee Tribe or any dependent Indian community of the tribe unless jurisdiction is transferred to the United States pursuant to an agreement between the tribe and the state.</p>

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