To allow binding arbitration clauses to be included in all contracts affecting land within the Gila River Indian Community Reservation.

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Amends specified federal law to allow binding arbitration clauses to be included in all contracts, including leases (as under current law), affecting the land within the Gila River Indian Community Reservation.

[109th Congress Public Law 147]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


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Public Law 109-147
109th Congress

                                 An Act


 
  To allow binding arbitration clauses to be included in all contracts 
         affecting land within the Gila River Indian Community 
           Reservation. <<NOTE: Dec. 22, 2005 -  [H.R. 327]>> 

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

SECTION 1. BINDING ARBITRATION FOR GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY 
            RESERVATION CONTRACTS.

    (a) Amendments.--Subsection (f) of the first section of the Act of 
August 9, 1955 (25 U.S.C. 415(f)), is amended--
            (1) in the first sentence--
                    (A) by striking ``Any lease'' and all that follows 
                through ``affecting land'' and inserting ``Any contract, 
                including a lease, affecting land''; and
                    (B) by striking ``such lease or contract'' and 
                inserting ``such contract''; and
            (2) in the second sentence, by striking ``Such leases or 
        contracts entered into pursuant to such Acts'' and inserting 
        ``Such contracts''.

    (b) <<NOTE: 25 USC 415 note.>> Effective Date.--The amendments made 
by subsection (a) shall take effect as if included in Public Law 107-159 
(116 Stat. 122).

    Approved December 22, 2005.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 327 (S. 1482):
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 151 (2005):
            Dec. 7, considered and passed House.
            Dec. 14, considered and passed Senate.

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