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S107Referred to Committee

Lumbee Fairness Act

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Introduced
In Committee
3
Passed One Chamber
4
Passed Both
5
Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-01-16
Introduced
20
Cosponsors
S
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Type

Sponsor

Thom Tillis
Thom Tillis
Republican · NC · Senator
Votes with party: 38.4% (297 recorded votes)

Full profile: /officials/T000476

Source: Congress.gov · FEC

Cosponsors (20)

Members who have signed on to support this bill since introduction. Source: Congress.gov.

  • Ted Budd (R-NC)Original· 2025-01-16
  • Mark R. Warner (D-VA)· 2025-01-23
  • Tim Kaine (D-VA)· 2025-01-23
  • Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH)· 2025-01-24
  • Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)· 2025-01-28
  • Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)· 2025-02-03
  • Lindsey Graham (R-SC)· 2025-02-05
  • Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)· 2025-02-18
  • Cory A. Booker (D-NJ)· 2025-02-18
  • Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)· 2025-02-18
  • Christopher A. Coons (D-DE)· 2025-03-03
  • Christopher Murphy (D-CT)· 2025-03-05
  • Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE)· 2025-03-25
  • Edward J. Markey (D-MA)· 2025-04-29
  • Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI)· 2025-05-08
  • Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)· 2025-05-08
  • Brian Schatz (D-HI)· 2025-06-30
  • Angela D. Alsobrooks (D-MD)· 2025-07-30
  • Andy Kim (D-NJ)· 2025-10-07

Latest Action

The most recent step in the bill's legislative path. Committee Activity below shows referrals and reports; the full action-by-action history including floor proceedings lives at Congress.gov →

Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 119-275.

2025-11-05

Source: Congress.gov

Plain-English Summary

Lumbee Fairness Act This bill extends federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina and makes its members eligible for the services and benefits provided to members of federally recognized tribes. Members of the tribe residing in Robeson, Cumberland, Hoke, and Scotland Counties in North Carolina are deemed to be within the delivery area for such services. The Department of the Interior and the Department of Health and Human Services must develop, in consultation with the tribe, a determination of needs to provide the services for which members of the tribe are eligible. Interior may take land into trust for the benefit of the tribe. Finally, North Carolina must exercise jurisdiction over all criminal offenses committed, and all civil actions that arise, on North Carolina lands owned by, or held in trust for, the Lumbee Tribe or any dependent Indian community of the tribe unless jurisdiction is transferred to the United States pursuant to an agreement between the tribe and the state.

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

Subjects

Native Americans
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