A bill to authorize leases of up to 99 years for land held in trust for federally recognized Indian Tribes.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4813 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4813

   To authorize leases of up to 99 years for land held in trust for 
                  federally recognized Indian Tribes.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 17, 2026

  Mr. Tillis introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs

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                                 A BILL

 
   To authorize leases of up to 99 years for land held in trust for 
                  federally recognized Indian Tribes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED TRIBE 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)), is amended, in the 
second sentence, by inserting ``, land held in trust for any other 
Indian tribe included on the list published by the Secretary pursuant 
to section 104 of the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 
1994 (25 U.S.C. 5131)'' after ``Chehalis Reservation''.
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