[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1603 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1603

To reaffirm that certain land has been taken into trust for the benefit 
 of the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatami Indians, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 29, 2013

Ms. Stabenow (for herself and Mr. Levin) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To reaffirm that certain land has been taken into trust for the benefit 
 of the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatami Indians, 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 ``Gun Lake Trust Land Reaffirmation 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REAFFIRMATION OF INDIAN TRUST LAND.

    (a) In General.--The land taken into trust by the United States for 
the benefit of the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians 
and described in the final Notice of Determination of the Department of 
the Interior (70 Fed. Reg. 25596 (May 13, 2005)) is reaffirmed as trust 
land, and the actions of the Secretary of the Interior in taking that 
land into trust are ratified and confirmed.
    (b) No Claims.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an 
action (including an action pending in a Federal court as of the date 
of enactment of this Act) relating to the land described in subsection 
(a) shall not be filed or maintained in a Federal court and shall be 
promptly dismissed.
    (c) Retention of Future Rights.--Nothing in this Act alters or 
diminishes the right of the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of 
Pottawatomi Indians from seeking to have any additional land taken into 
trust by the United States for the benefit of the Band.
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