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]
[H.R. 5910 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5910

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 4, 2025

   Ms. Hageman (for herself and Ms. Leger Fernandez) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
                               Resources

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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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