[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 312 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 312

  To reaffirm the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe reservation, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 8, 2019

  Mr. Keating (for himself, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Young, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. 
  LaMalfa, Mr. Gallego, Mr. McClintock, and Mr. Cole) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To reaffirm the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe reservation, 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 ``Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Reservation 
Reaffirmation Act''.

SEC. 2. REAFFIRMATION OF INDIAN TRUST LAND.

    (a) In General.--The taking of land into trust by the United States 
for the benefit of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe of Massachusetts as 
described in the final Notice of Reservation Proclamation (81 Fed. Reg. 
948; January 8, 2016) 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) Application.--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) Applicability of Laws.--All laws (including regulations) of the 
United States of general applicability to Indians or nations, Indian 
Tribes, or bands of Indians (including the Act of June 18, 1934 (25 
U.S.C. 5101 et seq.)), shall be applicable to the Tribe and Tribal 
members, except that to the extent such laws and regulations are 
inconsistent with the terms of the Intergovernmental Agreement, dated 
April 22, 2008, by and between the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and the Town 
of Mashpee, Massachusetts, the terms of that Intergovernmental 
Agreement shall control.
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