119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 681

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

March 4, 2026

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs

AN ACT

To amend the Act of August 9, 1955 (commonly known as the “Long-Term Leasing Act”), to authorize leases of up to 99 years for land in the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Reservation and land held in trust for the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), 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. Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) leasing authority.

Subsection (a) of the first section of the Act of August 9, 1955 (69 Stat. 539, chapter 615; 25 U.S.C. 415(a)) (commonly known as the “Long-Term Leasing Act”), is amended, in the second sentence, by inserting “, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Reservation, land held in trust for the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)” after “Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation”.

Passed the House of Representatives March 3, 2026.