[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S2707]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 594. Mr. PADILLA (for himself and Mrs. Feinstein) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in subtitle G of title X, insert 
     the following:

     SEC. 10__. TRANSFER OF LAND INTO TRUST FOR THE PALA BAND OF 
                   MISSION INDIANS.

       (a) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
     of the Interior.
       (2) Tribe.--The term ``Tribe'' means the Pala Band of 
     Mission Indians.
       (b) Transfer and Administration.--
       (1) Transfer of land into trust.--If, not later than 180 
     days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Tribe 
     transfers title to the land referred to in subsection (c) to 
     the United States, the Secretary, not later than 180 days 
     after the date of that transfer, shall take that land into 
     trust for the benefit of the Tribe.
       (2) Administration.--The land taken into trust under 
     paragraph (1) shall be part of the Pala Indian Reservation 
     and administered in accordance with the laws and regulations 
     generally applicable to land held in trust by the United 
     States for an Indian Tribe.
       (c) Land Description.--The land referred to in subsection 
     (b)(1) is the approximately 721.12 acres of land located in 
     San Diego County, California, generally depicted as ``Gregory 
     Canyon Property Boundary'' on the map entitled ``Pala Gregory 
     Canyon Property Boundary and Parcels'' and dated May 12, 
     2020.
       (d) Rules of Construction.--Nothing in this section--
       (1) enlarges, impairs, or otherwise affects any right or 
     claim of the Tribe to any land or interest in land that is in 
     existence before the date of enactment of this Act;
       (2) affects any water right of the Tribe in existence 
     before the date of enactment of this Act; or
       (3) terminates or limits any access in any way to any 
     right-of-way or right-of-use issued, granted, or permitted 
     before the date of enactment of this Act.
       (e) Restricted Use of Transferred Lands.--The Tribe may not 
     conduct, on the land taken into trust under subsection 
     (b)(1), gaming activities--
       (1) as a matter of claimed inherent authority; or
       (2) under any Federal law, including the Indian Gaming 
     Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.) and regulations 
     promulgated by the Secretary or the National Indian Gaming 
     Commission under that Act.
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