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107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1186

To provide a budgetary mechanism to ensure that funds will be available 
 to satisfy the Federal Government's responsibilities with respect to 
   negotiated settlements of disputes related to Indian water rights 
                     claims and Indian land claims.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 17, 2001

Mr. Domenici (for himself, Mr. Inouye, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. 
Baucus, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Allard, Mr. Johnson, and Mr. Kyl) introduced the 
following bill; which was read twice and referred jointly pursusant to 
   the order of August 4, 1977, to the Committees on the Budget and 
Governmental Affairs, with instructions that if one committee reports, 
    the other committee have thirty days to report or be discharged

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide a budgetary mechanism to ensure that funds will be available 
 to satisfy the Federal Government's responsibilities with respect to 
   negotiated settlements of disputes related to Indian water rights 
                     claims and Indian land claims.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Fiscal Integrity of Indian 
Settlements Protection Act of 2001''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO BUDGET LAWS.

    (a) Balanced Budget Act.--Section 251(b)(2) of the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)) is 
amended by adding the following:
                    ``(H) Allowance for settlements of indian water 
                rights and land disputes.--
                            ``(i) Adjustment.--If an appropriation bill 
                        or joint resolution is enacted for fiscal year 
                        2002 that includes an appropriation authorized 
                        previously by a law approving a negotiated 
                        settlement of disputes related to Indian water 
                        rights claims or Indian land claims for that 
                        fiscal year, the adjustment shall be the amount 
                        of budget authority in that measure and the 
                        outlays flowing in all fiscal years from that 
                        budget authority.
                            ``(ii) Limitation.--The total adjustment 
                        made pursuant to this subparagraph shall not 
                        exceed $200,000,000 in budget authority.''.
    (b) Congressional Budget Act.--Section 314(b) of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 645(b)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (5), by striking ``or'' after the 
        semicolon;
            (2) in paragraph (6), by striking the period and inserting 
        ``; or''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(7) an amount provided, not to exceed $200,000,000, for 
        fiscal year 2002 for payments authorized previously by a law 
        approving a negotiated settlement of disputes related to Indian 
        water rights claims or Indian land claims as long as the 
        adjustment does not, when taken together with all other 
        previously enacted legislation (except for any legislation 
        enacted pursuant to section 211 of H. Con. Res. 83, 107th 
        Cong., 1st Sess.), reduce the on-budget surplus below the level 
        of the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund surplus in any 
        fiscal year covered by the most recently adopted concurrent 
        resolution on the budget.''.
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