S 2735
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Puts about 265 acres of federal land in California into trust for the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians and revokes a 1964 public land order covering that land.
Official title: Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
Senate
Introduced
08-SEP-2025
Approved by committee
20-MAY-2026
Reported
22-SEP-2026
On the calendar
22-SEP-2026
- Revokes Public Land Order 3309 from 1964 and transfers jurisdiction over the affected land to the Secretary of the Interior.
- Requires the Secretary, within 180 days of enactment and subject to valid existing rights, to place about 80 acres of Bureau of Land Management land and about 185 acres of Indian Creek Ranch land into trust for the Tribe.
- Declares the new trust land part of the Tribe's reservation and prohibits class II and class III gaming on it.
- Requires a review to determine whether a survey is needed, allows minor corrections to the survey and legal description, and keeps any survey on file at the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in Senate" (08-SEP-2025); the text has changed since (Reported to Senate, 22-SEP-2026).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Indian Affairs Committee (Senate)
Native Americans
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1 Democrat