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                                                  Union Calendar No. 99
110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 H. R. 65

                          [Report No. 110-164]

 To provide for the recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 4, 2007

Mr. McIntyre (for himself, Mr. Etheridge, Mr. Faleomavaega, Mr. Hayes, 
Ms. Herseth, Mr. Hinchey, Mr. Kildee, Mr. Miller of North Carolina, Mr. 
   Price of North Carolina, Mr. Watt, and Mr. Rahall) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
                               Resources

                              May 22, 2007

 Additional sponsors: Mr. Conyers, Mr. McDermott, Mr. George Miller of 
California, Mr. Towns, Mr. Clyburn, Mr. Fattah, Mr. Ruppersberger, Mr. 
 Olver, Mr. Pastor, Mr. Scott of Georgia, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, Mrs. 
 Jones of Ohio, Mr. Hoyer, Ms. Millender-McDonald, Ms. Jackson-Lee of 
  Texas, Mrs. Biggert, Mr. Kucinich, Mr. Emanuel, Mr. Kanjorski, Mr. 
 Cleaver, Mr. Payne, Mr. Meeks of New York, Mr. Cardoza, Mr. Davis of 
   Kentucky, Mr. Matheson, Mr. Rush, Mr. Cummings, Ms. Bordallo, Mr. 
 Taylor, Mr. Meehan, Mrs. Tauscher, Ms. Loretta Sanchez of California, 
  Mr. Ross, Mr. Skelton, Mr. Wu, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Boyd of Florida, Mr. 
 Rangel, Mr. Markey, Ms. Kilpatrick, Ms. Corrine Brown of Florida, Ms. 
  Baldwin, Mr. Frank of Massachusetts, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Mr. 
 Grijalva, Mr. Moran of Virginia, Mr. Doggett, Mr. Tierney, Mr. Lynch, 
  Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Mr. 
   Stupak, Mr. Doyle, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Delahunt, Mr. Gilchrest, Mr. 
 Lincoln Davis of Tennessee, Mr. Weiner, Mr. Udall of New Mexico, Mr. 
 Peterson of Minnesota, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Mr. Neal of Massachusetts, 
   Mr. DeFazio, Mr. Lipinski, Mr. Kind, Mr. Meek of Florida, Mr. Van 
Hollen, Mr. Larsen of Washington, Mr. Pallone, Ms. Linda T. Sanchez of 
California, Ms. Schwartz, Mr. Capuano, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Snyder, Mr. 
  Berry, Mr. Akin, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Smith of Washington, Mr. Udall of 
   Colorado, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Coble, Mr. English of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
   Platts, Mr. Baird, Mr. Gordon, Mr. Mollohan, Mr. Gutierrez, Mrs. 
Maloney of New York, Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania, Mr. Waxman, Mr. Allen, 
   Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Mr. Davis of Alabama, Mr. Wynn, Mr. 
 Jackson of Illinois, Ms. Watson, Mr. Moore of Kansas, Mr. Mario Diaz-
Balart of Florida, Mr. Holt, Mrs. McCarthy of New York, Mr. Rodriguez, 
 Mr. Reyes, Mr. Hastings of Florida, Mr. McNulty, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. 
    Ortiz, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Langevin, Mr. Becerra, Mrs. Capito, Mr. 
Edwards, Mr. Brady of Texas, Ms. Slaughter, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Lewis of 
 Georgia, Ms. Berkley, Mr. Cuellar, Mr. Gene Green of Texas, Ms. Eddie 
   Bernice Johnson of Texas, Ms. Kaptur, Ms. Norton, Ms. Harman, Mr. 
 Lincoln Diaz-Balart of Florida, Mr. Crowley, Mr. Young of Alaska, Mr. 
 Peterson of Pennsylvania, Mr. LaTourette, Mr. Kline of Minnesota, Mr. 
 Tancredo, Mr. Lantos, Mr. Linder, Mr. Franks of Arizona, Mr. Chabot, 
 Mr. Berman, Mr. Thompson of California, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, 
 Mr. Schiff, Mr. Murtha, Mrs. Capps, Mr. Weldon of Florida, Mr. Costa, 
Mr. Melancon, Mr. Ackerman, Mr. Levin, Mr. Dicks, Mrs. Lowey, Ms. Lee, 
   Ms. Carson, Ms. Eshoo, Ms. McCollum of Minnesota, Mr. Filner, Mr. 
 Gonzalez, Mr. Honda, Mr. Michaud, Mr. Walsh of New York, Mr. Moran of 
 Kansas, Ms. Velazquez, Ms. Pryce of Ohio, Mr. Hunter, Mr. Garrett of 
  New Jersey, Mrs. Cubin, Mr. Walden of Oregon, Mr. Knollenberg, Mr. 
Engel, Ms. Waters, Ms. Hooley, Mr. Hinojosa, Ms. Woolsey, Mr. Shuster, 
    Mr. Lewis of Kentucky, Mr. Al Green of Texas, Mr. Chandler, Mr. 
  Higgins, Mr. Salazar, Mr. Butterfield, Mr. Serrano, Ms. Matsui, Mr. 
Israel, Mr. Whitfield, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Pascrell, Mrs. Musgrave, Mr. 
 Oberstar, Mr. Stark, Mr. Hall of Texas, Ms. DeGette, Mr. Holden, Mr. 
   Jefferson, Mr. Smith of Texas, Mr. Everett, Mr. King of Iowa, Mr. 
   Marchant, Mr. Brown of South Carolina, Mr. Walz of Minnesota, Mr. 
  Mitchell, Mr. Fortuno, Mrs. Christensen, Mr. Altmire, Mr. Hill, Mr. 
 Aderholt, Ms. Castor, Mr. Bachus, Mr. Alexander, and Mr. Smith of New 
                                 Jersey
 Deleted sponsors: Ms. Herseth Sandlin (added January 4, 2007; deleted 
April 25, 2007), Mr. Cole of Oklahoma (added January 10, 2007; deleted 
   April 23, 2007), and Mr. Tanner (added January 16, 2007; deleted 
                           January 23, 2007)

                              May 22, 2007

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on January 
                                4, 2007]

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for the recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, 
                        and for other purposes.

    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 ``Lumbee Recognition Act''.

SEC. 2. PREAMBLE.

    The preamble to the Act of June 7, 1956 (70 Stat. 254), is amended 
as follows:
            (1) By striking ``and'' at the end of each clause.
            (2) By striking ``: Now, therefore,'' at the end of the 
        last clause and inserting a semicolon.
            (3) By adding at the end the following new clauses:
``Whereas the Lumbee Indians of Robeson and adjoining counties in North Carolina 
        are descendants of coastal North Carolina Indian tribes, principally 
        Cheraw, and have remained a distinct Indian community since the time of 
        contact with white settlers;
``Whereas since 1885 the State of North Carolina has recognized the Lumbee 
        Indians as an Indian tribe;
``Whereas in 1956 the Congress of the United States acknowledged the Lumbee 
        Indians as an Indian tribe, but withheld from the Lumbee Tribe the 
        benefits, privileges and immunities to which the Tribe and its members 
        otherwise would have been entitled by virtue of the Tribe's status as a 
        federally recognized tribe; and
``Whereas the Congress finds that the Lumbee Indians should now be entitled to 
        full Federal recognition of their status as an Indian tribe and that the 
        benefits, privileges and immunities that accompany such status should be 
        accorded to the Lumbee Tribe: Now, therefore,''.

SEC. 3. FEDERAL RECOGNITION.

    The Act of June 7, 1956 (70 Stat. 254), is amended as follows:
            (1) By striking the last sentence of the first section.
            (2) By striking section 2 and inserting the following new 
        sections:
    ``Sec. 2. (a) Federal recognition is hereby extended to the Lumbee 
Tribe of North Carolina, as designated as petitioner number 65 by the 
Office of Federal Acknowledgement. All laws and regulations of the 
United States of general application to Indians and Indian tribes shall 
apply to the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina and its members.
    ``(b) Notwithstanding the first section, any group of Indians in 
Robeson and adjoining counties, North Carolina, whose members are not 
enrolled in the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina as determined under 
section 3(c), may petition under part 83 of title 25 of the Code of 
Federal Regulations for acknowledgement of tribal existence.
    ``Sec. 3. (a) The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina and its members 
shall be eligible for all services and benefits provided to Indians 
because of their status as members of a federally recognized tribe. For 
the purposes of the delivery of such services, those members of the 
Tribe residing in Robeson, Cumberland, Hoke, and Scotland counties in 
North Carolina shall be deemed to be residing on or near an Indian 
reservation.
    ``(b) Upon verification by the Secretary of the Interior of a 
tribal roll under subsection (c), the Secretary of the Interior and the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services shall develop, in consultation 
with the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, a determination of needs and 
budget to provide the services to which members of the Tribe are 
eligible. The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services shall each submit a written statement of such needs and 
budget to Congress after the tribal roll is verified.
    ``(c) For purposes of the delivery of Federal services, the tribal 
roll in effect on the date of the enactment of this section shall, 
subject to verification by the Secretary of the Interior, define the 
service population of the Tribe. The Secretary's verification shall be 
limited to confirming compliance with the membership criteria set out 
in the Tribe's constitution adopted on November 11, 2000, which 
verification shall be completed not less than 2 years after the date of 
the enactment of this section.
    ``Sec. 4. (a) Fee lands which the Tribe seeks to convey to the 
United States to be held in trust shall be treated by the Secretary of 
the Interior as `on-reservation' trust acquisitions under part 151 of 
title 25 of the Code of Federal Regulations (or a successor regulation) 
if such lands are located within Robeson County, North Carolina.
    ``(b) The tribe may not conduct gaming activities as a matter of 
claimed inherent authority or under the authority of any Federal law, 
including the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.) or 
under any regulations thereunder promulgated by the Secretary or the 
National Indian Gaming Commission.
    ``Sec. 5. (a) The State of North Carolina shall exercise 
jurisdiction over--
            ``(1) all criminal offenses that are committed on; and
            ``(2) all civil actions that arise on, lands located within 
        the State of North Carolina that are owned by, or held in trust 
        by the United States for, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, 
        or any dependent Indian community of the Lumbee Tribe of North 
        Carolina.
    ``(b) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept on 
behalf of the United States, after consulting with the Attorney General 
of the United States any transfer by the State of North Carolina to the 
United States of any portion of the jurisdiction of the State of North 
Carolina described in paragraph (1) pursuant to an agreement between 
the Lumbee Tribe and the State of North Carolina. Such transfer of 
jurisdiction may not take effect until 2 years after the effective date 
of the agreement.
    ``(c) The provisions of this subsection shall not affect the 
application of section 109 of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (25 
U.S.C. 1919).
    ``Sec. 6. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are 
necessary to carry out this Act.''.
                                                  Union Calendar No. 99

110th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                                H. R. 65

                          [Report No. 110-164]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 To provide for the recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, 
                        and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                              May 22, 2007

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed