bill_id,congress,bill_type,bill_number,title,policy_area,introduced_date,latest_action_date,latest_action_text,origin_chamber,sponsor_name,sponsor_state,sponsor_party,sponsor_bioguide_id,cosponsor_count,summary_text,update_date,url
102-hr-6205,102,hr,6205,To restore Federal services to the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians.,Native Americans,1992-10-06,1992-10-06,Referred to the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.,House,"Rep. Upton, Fred [R-MI-4]",MI,R,U000031,1,"Affirms Federal recognition of, and provides Federal services to, the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians. States that the Band's service area shall consist of specified counties in Michigan and Indiana.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
102-hr-6158,102,hr,6158,"To amend the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, and for other purposes.",Native Americans,1992-10-05,1992-10-05,Referred to the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.,House,"Rep. Torres, Esteban Edward [D-CA-34]",CA,D,T000316,0,"Amends the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (the Act) to revise conditions under which a tribe may receive certification for certain types of gaming activities on Indian lands. Allow a State the option to consent to enter into negotiations with a tribe to enter into a class III gaming certification compact. (Current law requires such negotiations.) Allows a tribe to apply to the National Indian Gaming Commission (the Commission) for a class III gaming certificate if a State fails to consent to Federal court jurisdiction or raises a defense against such jurisdiction, or the Federal court finds it lacks such jurisdiction, for any reason not curable by the tribe. Directs the Commission to approve the application if such gaming will be conducted in accordance with a tribal ordinance or resolution and will be located in a State that permits such gaming for any purpose, by any person, organization, or entity.  Authorizes the Commission to add regulatory or licensing provisions as a condition of such approval and to impose annual fees to defray reasonable costs of regulation. Declares that this Act shall not impair the validity of any tribal-State compact entered into under specified provisions of the Act.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
102-hr-6172,102,hr,6172,"To amend the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, and for other purposes.",Native Americans,1992-10-05,1992-10-05,Referred to the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.,House,"Rep. Hoagland, Peter [D-NE-2]",NE,D,H000652,0,"Amends the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to revise conditions for regulation of certain types of gaming activities on Indian lands. Revises such conditions with respect to the regulation of Class II and Class III gaming activities to specify that these shall be limited to the specific forms of, and methods of play for, those gaming activities expressly authorized by the law of the State. Excludes video bingo from the definition of class II gaming Includes video bingo, and any other forms of electronic video games or devices, as well as slot machines, within the definition of class III gaming. Excludes as evidence that a State has not negotiated in good faith a State's demand that gaming activities contemplated under a compact with a tribe be conducted on the same basis as those conducted by any other person or entity under relevant State law. Adds to the membership of the National Indian Gaming Commission two associate members who shall be appointed by the President, with Senate advice and consent, from among State officials. Includes, under provisions for determining whether gaming activities on newly acquired Indian lands are to be allowed, consideration of communities across State borders that would be seriously affected, as well as consultation with officials of such communities.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
102-hr-6177,102,hr,6177,Native American Trust Fund Accounting and Management Reform Act of 1993,Native Americans,1992-10-05,1992-10-05,Referred to the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.,House,"Rep. Synar, Mike [D-OK-2]",OK,D,S001139,0,Native American Trust Fund Accounting and Management Reform Act of 1993 - Title I:  Trust Fund Interest Payments - Amends Federal law to change from discretionary to mandatory the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to invest Indian trust funds in debt obligations issued or guaranteed by the United States. Requires the Secretary to pay interest periodically on such deposited or invested funds to the appropriate Indian tribe or individual Indian. Repeals Federal law that relieves the United States from any liability relating to the interest payable on such invested funds. Authorizes the Secretary to make payments to an Indian tribe or individual Indian in full satisfaction of any claim of such tribe or Indian for any interest owed on amounts deposited or invested on their behalf before the enactment of this Act. Title II:  Indian Trust Fund Management Demonstration Program - Authorizes an Indian tribe to submit to the Secretary a demonstration plan for new approaches to management of tribal or individual funds held in trust by the United States and managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) for a tribe or its members.  Sets forth:  (1) plan approval criteria; and (2) Federal trust responsibility in the case of tribal trust fund management. Title III:  Energy Resource Development on Indian Reservations - Directs the Secretary to establish a demonstration loan and grant program to assist Indian tribes to pursue energy self-sufficiency and to promote development of reservation energy industries. Title IV:  Recognition of Trust Responsibility - Amends Federal law to require the Secretary to take specified actions to properly discharge U.S. trust responsibilities with regard to Indian funds investment. States that the Congress recognizes a trust responsibility with respect to natural resources on Indian reservations and trust lands. Title V:  Training and Personnel - Directs the Secretary to establish a trust fund management training program for Indians.,2025-08-26T15:14:46Z,
102-s-3347,102,s,3347,Indian Water Rights Settlement Working Group within the Department of the Interior Act of 1992,Native Americans,1992-10-05,1992-10-05,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.,Senate,"Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]",HI,D,I000025,1,Indian Water Rights Settlement Working Group Within the Department of the Interior Act of 1992 - Establishes within the Office of the Secretary of the Department of the Interior a Working Group on Indian Water Rights Settlements which shall develop criteria and procedures for settlement of Indian water rights claims. States that primary responsibility for settlement of Indian water rights claims shall be vested in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs.,2025-08-26T15:15:35Z,
102-sjres-346,102,sjres,346,A joint resolution to provide for the payment of fair and equitable consideration in satisfaction of the claims of certain Kaw Indians.,Native Americans,1992-10-05,1992-10-05,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.,Senate,"Sen. Nickles, Don [R-OK]",OK,R,N000102,0,"Provides for the settlement of certain land claims of the Kaw Indian Tribe. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury (Secretary) to establish a Treasury account for the payment of Kaw claims.  Places any funds in excess of such payments into a charitable trust to be administered by and for the lineal descendants of the original reservees. Directs the Secretary, upon establishment of the account and payment of the funds, to publish notice of the account, which shall serve to extinguish all claims arising out of the Treaty of 1825 (thus clearing title to certain Kansas lands).",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-s-3267,102,s,3267,"A bill to provide Indian education assistance to carry out the purposes of title IV of the Arizona-Idaho Conservation Act of 1988, P.L. 100-696, to provide for reimbursement to the Treasury by certain private parties, and for other purposes.",Native Americans,1992-09-24,1992-09-24,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.,Senate,"Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]",AZ,R,M000303,0,"Establishes in the Treasury:  (1) the Interim Arizona InterTribal Education Assistance Trust Fund; and (2) the Interim Navajo Education Assistance Trust Fund.  Authorizes appropriations and provides for fund allocations. Sets forth related Treasury and trust fund reimbursement requirements for a specified private party based upon full or partial appropriations under this Act. Prohibits payment methods provided for by this Act to be followed in lieu of specified current methods without the consent of the InterTribal Council of Arizona and the Navajo Tribe. Authorizes:  (1) the Secretary of the Interior to transfer jurisdiction of certain property to the Department of Veterans Affairs; (2) the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to accept such transfer and convey certain property to Arizona; and (3) the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain property to Phoenix, Arizona.",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-s-3237,102,s,3237,Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act Amendments Act of 1992,Native Americans,1992-09-16,1992-09-29,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 756.,Senate,"Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]",HI,D,I000025,0,"Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act Amendments Act of 1992 - Amends the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (the Act) to define construction contract as a self-determination contract for any construction program other than a contract:  (1) limited to providing architectural and engineering services, planning services, or construction management services; or (2) for the Housing Improvement Program administered by the Secretary of the Interior. Includes the Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska among groups recognized as Indian tribes for purposes of the Act. Reduces certain reporting requirements under the Act. Specifies that tribal organizations are exempt from Davis-Bacon Act wage requirements under the Act. Recognizes tribal laws involving employment or contract preference. Specifies that all administrative functions of the Departments of the Interior and of Health and Human Services (HHS) which support the delivery of services to Indians are contractable under the Act, including those which are related to, but not part of, the service delivery program and which are otherwise contractable.  Provides that programs shall be contractable without regard to the organizational level within the Department. Revises requirements relating to review procedures and approval criteria for proposed self-determination contracts and amendments.  Provides for approval of any severable portion of a contract proposal which does not support a declination finding.  Places the burden of proof (in a hearing or appeal) on the appropriate Secretary (of the Interior or HHS) to establish by clear and convincing evidence that the contract proposal should be declined.  Requires that the final departmental decision in all such appeals be made at a level no lower than that of the Assistant Secretary. Specifies that certain Federal procurement policy law and Federal acquisitions regulations apply to contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements under the Act only to the extent that they are not inconsistent with the provisions or policy of the Act. Specifies that a tribe may rescind its request for retrocession. Specifies that the prohibition against the appropriate Secretary's making any contract that impairs ability to carry out trust responsibilities to any Indian tribe or individual refers to contracts for the provision of personal services. Provides that:  (1) title to property and equipment furnished with funds under any self-determination contract or grant agreement shall vest in the appropriate tribe or tribal organization; and (2) upon retrocession, rescission, or termination of such contract or grant title to such property having a value in excess of a specified amount, and remaining in use in support of the contracted program, shall revert to the appropriate Secretary, upon that Secretary's option. Establishes procedures for coordinating newly contracted programs with programs which are still being administered by the appropriate Secretary. Authorizes tribal organizations, which are carrying out self-determination contracts, to redesign programs, activities, functions, and services under such contracts to best meet various needs of the Indian people and tribe served.  Requires program standards in such contracts to be developed by mutual agreement to maximize such flexibility while assuring adequate protection of trust resources and delivery of satisfactory services. Deems an Indian tribe or tribal organization carrying out a contract, grant, or cooperative agreement under the Act as a Federal executive agency for purposes of access to special rates (for travel, lodging, and so forth) under specified Federal law involving Federal sources of supply. Requires the appropriate Secretary to provide no less an amount for a program under contract than would otherwise have been provided for such program, without regard to organizational levels within the Department. Includes savings in operation under a cost reimbursement contract involving a construction program among the self-determination contract savings that are to be used to provide additional services or benefits under the contract or be expended in the succeeding fiscal year (by the tribal contractor, rather than reverting to the Treasury). Provides for inclusion of certain previously incurred or one-time startup costs as part of the contract or of support costs, if the Secretary has been notified in advance. Includes under accounting and reporting requirements for the appropriate Secretary's annual report to the Congress any deficiency of funds needed to provide:  (1) contract support costs (as well as required indirect costs) to all contractors for the current fiscal year; and (2) satisfactory services to any tribes adversely affected by contracting activities under the Act. Requires every Federal agency to pay its full proportionate share of the indirect costs associated with federally funded contracts or grants awarded to tribes or tribal organizations under any other law.  Directs the appropriate Secretary, subject to availability of appropriations, to fund shortfalls and report unfunded shortfalls to the Congress, if appropriations are insufficient for Federal agencies (other than the Departments of the Interior or HHS) or for State governments or agencies to pay their full proportionate share. Prescribes when a 365-day statute of limitations begins to run, under provisions for rights of action or other remedies (excluding criminal penalties) relating to disallowance of costs. Allows a tribal organization to use funds provided under a self-determination contract:  (1) to meet matching or cost participation requirements under other Federal and non-Federal programs; and (2) without approval, to the extent supportive of a contract program, for various specified purposes. Directs the Office of Management and the Budget, within 12 months after enactment of this Act and with tribal participation, to develop a separate set of cost principles applicable to tribes and tribal organizations consistent with the government-to-government Federal-tribal relationship under this Act. Prohibits the appropriate Secretary from suspending or delaying payments to a tribal organization under a self-determination contract, except in connection with a rescission or reassumption. Specifies that program income earned by a tribal organization in carrying out a self-determination contract:  (1) shall be used to further the general purposes of the contract; and (2) shall not be a basis for reducing the amount otherwise obligated under the contract. Requires the appropriate Secretary to make any savings resulting from contracting activities under the Act (which reduce Federal administrative responsibilities for Indian programs and which have not been otherwise included in the contract amount) available to tribal organizations contracting under the Act, to the extent that does not adversely affect the Secretary's ability to carry out responsibilities to other tribes and tribal organizations. Extends the appropriate Secretary's authority (to rescind immediately, upon notice, a contract or grant and resume control or operation of a program service, or activity) to cases in which the Secretary finds an imminent substantial and irreparable harm to trust resources (as well as, under current law, cases of finding an immediate threat to safety.) Requires that all administrative appeals relating to self-determination contracts be heard by the Interior Board of Contracts (but otherwise retains the applicability of the Contract Disputes Act to self-determination contracts).",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-hr-5932,102,hr,5932,"To provide for the resolution of the conflicting water rights claims for lands within the Roosevelt Water Conservation District in Maricopa County, Arizona, and the Gila River Indian Reservation.",Native Americans,1992-09-10,1992-09-10,Referred to the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.,House,"Rep. Rhodes, John J., III [R-AZ-1]",AZ,R,R000189,1,"Ratifies the agreement between the United States, the Gila River Indian Community, and the Roosevelt Water Conservation District for the settlement of the water rights claims of the Community against the District for lands on the Gila River Indian Reservation in Maricopa County, Arizona. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to enter into a water delivery contract with the Community for delivery of water relinquished by the District for the Community's use and benefit.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
102-s-3227,102,s,3227,"A bill to provide for the resolution of the conflicting water rights claims for lands within the Roosevelt Water Conservation District in Maricopa County, Arizona, and the Gila River Indian Reservation.",Native Americans,1992-09-10,1992-09-10,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.,Senate,"Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]",AZ,R,M000303,1,"Ratifies the agreement between the United States, the Gila River Indian Community, and the Roosevelt Water Conservation District for the settlement of the water rights claims of the Community against the District for lands on the Gila River Indian Reservation in Maricopa County, Arizona. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to enter into a water delivery contract with the Community for delivery of water relinquished by the District for the Community's use and benefit.",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-hr-5908,102,hr,5908,To allow certain gaming activities to be conducted on Indian lands in the State of Montana for a one-year period.,Native Americans,1992-08-12,1992-10-01,See H.R.5686.,House,"Rep. Williams, Pat [D-MT-1]",MT,D,W000520,0,Permits certain gaming activities to be conducted for a one-year period on Indian lands in Montana.,2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
102-s-3155,102,s,3155,National Indian Policy Research Institute Act,Native Americans,1992-08-07,1992-10-09,Referred jointly to the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.,Senate,"Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]",HI,D,I000025,5,"National Indian Policy Research Institute Act - Establishes as a federally chartered corporation the National Indian Policy Research Institute (Institute) which shall be located in the George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Requires the Congress to review the Institute's performance within 60 months of enactment of this Act. Directs the Institute to:  (1) conduct research and analysis and provide public information relating to Indian public policy; (2) develop a data base and act as an information clearinghouse; (3) conduct public forums and symposia; and (4) make public information available. Establishes in the Institute a Resource Advisory Council.  States that the Council's function shall be advisory only and shall exercise no executive authority. States that the Institute shall:  (1) be nonprofit and nonpolitical in nature; and (2) have tax exempt status. Transfers to the Institute the functions of the National Center for Native American Studies and Indian Policy Development. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, subject to congressional appropriation, to award a grant to the George Washington University for Institute activities. Authorizes the Institute to enter into agreements with and provide grants to specified tribal colleges. Sets forth reporting requirements.  Authorizes FY 1994 through 1996 appropriations.",2025-07-21T19:44:15Z,
102-s-3157,102,s,3157,Native American Veterans' Memorial Establishment Act,Native Americans,1992-08-07,1992-10-09,Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.,Senate,"Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]",AZ,R,M000303,6,"Native American Veterans' Memorial Establishment Act - Authorizes the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of the American Indian to design, construct, and maintain a National Native American Veterans' Memorial. Locates the Memorial on the same site as the National Museum of the American Indian. Provides for funding of the Memorial through private donations. States that the United States shall not pay any of the Memorial's establishment expenses, other than providing the location. Defines ""Native American"" as an Indian, a Native Hawaiian, and an Alaska Native.",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-hr-5752,102,hr,5752,Indian Health Amendments of 1992,Native Americans,1992-08-03,1992-09-15,See H.R.3724.,House,"Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]",CA,D,M000725,1,"Indian Health Amendments of 1992 - Amends the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to state that it is the intent of the Congress that the Nation meet specified health status objectives with respect to Indians and urban Indians by the year 2000. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to report to the President, for transmission to the Congress, on the progress made in meeting each stated objective. Title I:  Indian Health Professionals - Directs the Secretary to make preparatory scholarship grants for:  (1) up to two years on a full-time basis (or the part-time equivalent) to Indians who have demonstrated the capability to successfully complete courses of study in the health professions; and (2) up to four years (or the part-time equivalent) for pregraduate education of any grantee leading to a baccalaureate degree in an approved course of study preparatory to such health professions. Prohibits the Secretary from denying scholarship assistance to an eligible applicant solely by reason of such applicant's eligibility for other Federal assistance. Authorizes the Secretary to grant health professions scholarships to Indians who are enrolled full or part-time in appropriately accredited schools and pursuing courses of study in the health professions. Makes an individual eligible for such scholarship in any year in which he or she is enrolled full or part-time in such course of study. Permits an Indian Health Scholarship recipient to meet active duty requirements through service on his or her reservation or to his or her tribe. Provides that the period for a part-time scholarship shall not exceed the part-time equivalent of four years. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Indian Health Service (Service), to establish a Placement Office to develop a national policy for the placement within the Service of health professionals required to meet the active duty obligation prescribed under the Public Health Service Act without regard to any competitive personnel system, agency personnel limitation, or Indian preference policy. Makes an individual liable to the United States for the amount paid to or on the individual's behalf under a written Indian health professions contract for specified breaches.  Entitles the United States to recover an amount determined by a specified formula from any individual who fails to begin or complete such service obligations. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Service, to provide: (1) continuing education allowances to nurses employed by the Service; and (2) grants to establish and develop clinics operated by nurses, nurse midwives, or nurse practitioners to provide primary health care services to Indians.  Allocates funds for the training of nurse practitioners. Requires that as of FY 1993 at least 25 percent of annual retention bonuses be awarded to nurses. Requires the Secretary, acting through the Service, to establish a program to enable licensed practical nurses, licensed vocational nurses, and registered nurses working in an Indian health program for at least one year to pursue advanced training in a residency program. Revises the Indian Health Service Loan Repayment Program with respect to:  (1) eligibility and anticipation requirements; (2) extension of obligated service; (3) undergraduate loans; (4) repayment of loans; (5) tax liability reimbursements; and (6) the Secretary's annual report to the Congress. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Service, to assign one individual in each area office to be responsible on a full-time basis for recruitment activities. Requires the Secretary to provide a grant to a college or university to establish and maintain a program parallel to the Indians into Medicine Program (INMED) for the nursing and mental health professions. Establishes in the Treasury the Indian Health Scholarship and Loan Repayment Recovery Fund. Directs the Secretary, under authority of the Snyder Act, to:  (1) maintain a Community Health Aide Program in Alaska; and (2) provide, in a specified manner, a high standard of training to community health aides to ensure that they provide quality health care, health promotion, and disease prevention services to the villages served by the Program. Requires the Secretary, by contract or otherwise, to provide training for individuals in the administration and planning of tribal health programs. Authorizes appropriations. Title II:  Health Services - Authorizes the Secretary to expend appropriated funds under this Act to eliminate the deficiencies in health status and resources of all Indian tribes. Changes the threshold cost established by the Secretary:  (1) for FY 1992 to a minimum of $15,000 and a maximum of $25,000 (currently a minimum of $10,000 to a maximum of $20,000) before a service unit can be eligible for reimbursement from the Catastrophic Health Emergency Fund for the cost of treatment of an individual; and (2) for each succeeding year to the cost of the previous year increased by the percentage increase in the medical care expenditure category of the consumer price index for all urban consumers. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Service, to provide health promotion and disease prevention services to Indians to achieve the health objectives set forth in this Act. Repeals the requirement that the Secretary establish from one to four demonstration projects to discover the most effective and cost-efficient means of providing health promotion and disease prevention services to Indians. Directs the Secretary to continue to maintain specified model diabetes projects in existence through FY 2000. Authorizes the Secretary to establish new model diabetes projects. Prohibits the establishment of a greater number of them in one service area than in another until there is an equal number established with respect to all service areas. Adds to the duties of the diabetes control officer employed in each area office of the Service the task of evaluating the effectiveness of services provided through model diabetes projects established under this Act. Requires the Service to report annually to the President, for transmission to the Congress, on the mental health status of Indians. Requires any person employed as a psychologist, marriage and family therapist, or social worker providing clinical mental health care services to Indians to be licensed as such or working under the direct supervision of a licensed clinical psychologist, marriage and family therapist, or social worker. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Service, to provide grants for intermediate mental health services to Indian children and adolescents.  Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the: (1) feasibility and desirability of furnishing hospice care to terminally ill Indians; (2) the determination of the most efficient and effective means of furnishing such care; and (3) the feasibility of allowing an Indian tribe to purchase, directly or through the Service, managed care coverage under certain circumstances.  Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to establish a contract health services demonstration program for California Indians.  Provides for reimbursement of related costs for the California Rural Indian Health Board.  Establishes a program advisory board.  Terminates the program on September 30, 1997.  Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Service, to:  (1) provide for screening mammography of Indian and urban Indian women 35 years or older; and (2) provide funds for certain patient travel costs (authorizing appropriations). Directs the Secretary to establish an epidemiology center in each service area. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Service, to award grants to:  (1) Indian tribes for comprehensive school health education programs; and (2) Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations for Indian youth programs.  Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to develop a comprehensive school health education program for Bureau schools.  Authorizes appropriations. Title III:  Health Facilities - Requires the Secretary, when evaluating for the Congress the likely impact of the closure of an Indian Health Service hospital or one of its outpatient facilities, to specify:  (1) the level of use of such hospital or facility by all eligible Indians; and (2) the distance between such hospital or facility and the nearest operating Service hospital. Authorizes:  (1) the Secretary to provide financial assistance to Indian tribes and communities for safe water and sanitary waste disposal facilities; and (2) the Secretary, acting through the Service, to provide grants to tribes and tribal organizations for construction and expansion of ambulatory care facilities. Revises the priority for grant and contract awards under the Indian health care delivery demonstration project. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV:  Access to Health Services - Amends the Social Security Act to prohibit any payments received by a hospital or skilled nursing facility of the Service for services provided to Indians eligible for Medicare benefits from being considered in determining appropriations for health care and services to Indians. Declares that the Secretary has no authority to provide services to an Indian beneficiary with coverage under Medicare in preference to an Indian beneficiary without such coverage. Requires payments to any Service facility made under the Medicaid program to be placed in a special fund to be held by the Secretary and used, in a specified manner, exclusively for making any improvements in the facilities of such Service to achieve compliance with the applicable conditions and requirements of the Social Security Act. Prohibits payments received by such facility for services provided to Indians eligible for benefits under Medicaid from being considered in determining appropriations for the provision of health care and services to Indians. Requires the Secretary to submit to the President, instead of the Congress, for submission with the budget, an accounting of the amount and use of funds reimbursed through Medicare and Medicaid made available to Indian Health Services. Authorizes appropriations. Title V:  Health Services for Urban Indians - Authorizes grants to urban Indian organizations for health care services.  (Currently the Secretary has contract authority only.) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to urban Indians for organizations for alcohol and substance abuse related services. Authorizes appropriations. Title VI:  Organizational Improvements - Requires the Secretary to carry out, through the Director of the Service, all scholarship and loan functions under this Act. Authorizes appropriations. Title VII:  Substance Abuse Programs - Redesignates Title VII of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act as Title VIII. Expands the responsibilities of the Indian Health Service with respect to the Memorandum of Agreement entered into under the Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1986. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Service, to provide a program of comprehensive alcohol and substance abuse prevention and treatment to members of Indian tribes, including programs for pregnant and post-partum women and their children. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Service, to enter into contracts with public or private providers of alcohol and substance abuse treatment services to assist the Service in carrying out such programs. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to tribes and tribal organizations for alcohol and substance abuse treatment of Indian women.  Authorizes appropriations.  Obligates 20 percent of appropriations for grants to urban Indian organizations. Directs the Secretary to:  (1) develop a program for acute detoxification and treatment for Indian youth who are alcohol and substance abusers; and (2) construct or renovate, and appropriately staff and operate, a youth regional treatment center in each area under the jurisdiction of an area office.  Considers the one area office in California to be two area offices. Authorizes the Secretary to make funds available to the Tanana Chiefs Conference, Incorporated, to lease, construct, renovate, and operate a residential youth treatment facility in Fairbanks, Alaska. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Service, to:  (1) identify and use, where appropriate, federally-owned structures suitable as local residential or regional alcohol and substance abuse treatment centers for Indian youth; and (2) establish guidelines to determine their suitability for such purpose. Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary of the Interior, to develop within each Service unit community-based rehabilitation and follow-up services designed to integrate long-term treatment and to monitor and support Indian youth who are alcohol or substance abusers after their return home. Provides for the inclusion of family members in such treatment programs or other appropriate services.  Earmarks at least ten percent of funds appropriated to carry out such programs for outpatient care of adult family members related to the treatment of an Indian youth. Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on:  (1) the incidence and prevalence of the abuse of multiple forms of drugs, including alcohol, among Indian youth residing on Indian reservations and in urban areas; and (2) the interrelationship of such abuse with the incidence of mental illness among such youth. Requires the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary of the Interior, to develop within each service unit a program to provide training and community education in the areas of alcohol and substance abuse, including the development of community-based training models. Requires the Secretary to make grants to the Navajo Nation to provide residential treatment for alcohol and substance abuse for the Tribe's adult and adolescent members and neighboring tribes. Directs the Navajo Nation to enter into a contract with a Gallup, New Mexico, area institution accredited by the Joint Commission of the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations to provide such comprehensive alcohol and drug treatment. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to tribes and tribal organizations for fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and fetal alcohol effect (FAE) programs.  Directs the Secretary to:  (1) establish an FAS/FAE Task Force; and (2) make grants through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to tribes, tribal organizations, and universities for applied FAS and FAE research projects.  Authorizes appropriations.  Obligates ten percent of appropriations for urban Indian organizations. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Service, to:  (1) make grants through FY 1995 to the 8 Northern Indian Pueblos Council, San Jean Pueblo, New Mexico, for substance abuse treatment services; and (2) make a grant to the Intertribal Addiction Recovery Organization, Inc. (Thunder Child Treatment Center), Sheridan, Wyoming, for the construction of a substance abuse treatment center (authorizing appropriations). Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Service, to enter into contracts with, or make grants to, tribally controlled or other eligible community colleges for demonstration projects to develop educational curricula for substance abuse counseling. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1986 to:  (1) repeal current part 6 (Indian alcohol and substance abuse treatment and rehabilitation); (2) require Tribal Action Plans to be updated every two years; (3) extend authorization of appropriations for Tribal Action Plan technical assistance; (3) authorize grants and necessary appropriations for substance abuse education and prevention programs; (4) extend authorization of appropriations for a substance abuse newsletter; (5) extend authorization of appropriations for an Indian youth summer program; (6) extend authorization of appropriations for Indian youth emergency shelters and half-way houses; (7) authorize assistance to the Makah Indian Tribe of Washington for investigation and control of illegal narcotic traffic on the Makah Indian Reservation; (8) extend authorization of appropriations for similar narcotics investigation and control activities by the Tohono O'odham Tribe of Arizona and the St. Regis Band of Mohawk Indians of New York on their Reservations; (9) extend authorization of appropriations for the Department of the Interior's program of marihuana eradication and interdiction on Indian lands; (10) extend authorization of appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs' program of law enforcement and judicial training; and (11) extend authorization of appropriations for juvenile detention centers. Title: VIII:  Miscellaneous - Directs the President to include with submission of the budget certain reports and statements on meeting the objectives of this Act. Extends to FY 2000 the time during which Arizona is designated as a contract health service delivery area. Continues through FY 1995 the demonstration programs involving treatment for child sexual abuse that were conducted in FY 1991 through the Hopi Tribe and the Asiniboine and Sioux Tribes of Fort Peck Reservation. Authorizes the Secretary and the Secretary of the Interior to establish such programs in any service area, except that the establishment of a greater number of them in one service area than in another is prohibited until there is an equal number established with respect to all service areas. Extends the deadline for:  (1) certain tribal health services management demonstration programs; and (2) an evaluation report by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Service, to enter into contracts with, or make grants to, tribes or tribal organizations for long-term care demonstration projects for disabled Indians.  Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to provide for the dissemination to Indian tribes of the results of demonstration projects under this Act. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to authorize appropriations for the purpose of providing one-year planning and negotiations grants to certain tribes under the tribal self-government projects. Title IX:  Technical Corrections - Makes technical corrections to the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.",2025-08-26T15:14:27Z,
102-s-3121,102,s,3121,Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians Act,Native Americans,1992-08-03,1992-08-03,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.,Senate,"Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]",MI,D,L000261,1,Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians Act - Extends Federal recognition and associated benefits to the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians (Tribes) of Michigan. Provides for the Tribes to be governed by current interim documents and officials until the Secretary of the Interior conducts elections to adopt a constitution and elect new tribal officials.,2025-08-26T15:14:40Z,
102-s-3125,102,s,3125,Southern Arizona Water Rights Settlement Amendments Act of 1992,Native Americans,1992-08-03,1992-08-06,Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 102-942.,Senate,"Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]",AZ,R,M000303,1,"Southern Arizona Water Rights Settlement Amendments Act of 1992 - Amends the Southern Arizona Water Rights Settlement Act of 1982 to revise the settlement agreement between the United States, the Tohono O'Odham Nation and its individual members and allottees in the San Xavier Reservation and Eastern Schuk Toak District, the city of Tucson, and other parties involving water rights claims in southern Arizona.",2025-08-26T15:16:33Z,
102-s-3126,102,s,3126,A bill to extend a time limitation with respect to the economic development plan of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska.,Native Americans,1992-08-03,1992-08-03,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.,Senate,"Sen. Exon, J. James [D-NE]",NE,D,E000284,1,Amends the Ponca Restoration Act to extend the deadline by which the Secretary of the Interior must submit to the Congress an economic development plan for the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska.,2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-hr-5735,102,hr,5735,Southern Arizona Water Rights Settlement Amendments Act of 1992,Native Americans,1992-07-31,1992-09-24,"Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Offshore Energy Resources.",House,"Rep. Pastor, Ed [D-AZ-2]",AZ,D,P000099,4,"Southern Arizona Water Rights Settlement Amendments Act of 1992 - Amends the Southern Arizona Water Rights Settlement Act of 1982 to revise the settlement agreement between the United States, the Tohono O'Odham Nation and its individual members and allottees in the San Xavier Reservation and Eastern Schuk Toak District, the city of Tucson, and other parties involving water rights claims in southern Arizona.",2025-08-26T15:14:52Z,
102-hr-5744,102,hr,5744,Indian Agricultural Resources Management Act of 1992,Native Americans,1992-07-31,1992-09-22,Committee Hearings Held.,House,"Rep. Johnson, Tim [D-SD-At Large]",SD,D,J000177,2,"Indian Agricultural Resources Management Act of 1992 - Title I: General Provisions - States that existing Federal laws do not sufficiently assure the adequate and necessary trust management of Indian rangelands and farmlands. Sets forth findings, purposes, and definitions. Title II:  Rangeland and Farmland Enhancement - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to manage Indian rangelands and farmlands, using state-of-the-art technology, either directly or through cooperative agreements, self-determination contracts, and grants under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act.  Enumerates management conservation, agricultural production, agribusiness, leasing, and other objectives. Requires a reservation-by-reservation resource management planning program.  Requires compliance with tribal laws pertaining to Indian agricultural lands. Establishes a task force to develop a comparative analysis of Federal investment and management efforts for Indian trust lands as compared to federally owned lands managed by other Federal agencies. Authorizes the Secretary to negotiate and lease highly fractionated undivided heirship lands to reduce idle acreage. Title III:  Education in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management - Requires the establishment, in the Bureau of Indian Affairs or elsewhere, of at least 20 natural resources intern positions for Indians and Alaska Native students.  Requires establishment of a cooperative education program for employment of Indian and Alaska Native students in Federal professional natural resource-related positions.  Provides financial assistance under the program. Directs the creation of scholarships, outreach programs, postgraduate recruitment programs, education and training programs, and internships to attract and train Indians and Alaska Natives in careers in Indian natural resources management. Title IV:  Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations. Title V:  Miscellaneous - Provides for regulations and severability of this Act.  Prohibits construing this Act as diminishing or expanding U.S. trust responsibility.",2025-08-26T15:14:26Z,
102-s-3118,102,s,3118,Indian Business Opportunities Enhancement Act,Native Americans,1992-07-31,1992-09-30,Executive Comment Received from HHS.,Senate,"Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND]",ND,D,C000705,7,"Indian Business Opportunities Enhancement Act - Amends the Buy Indian Act to require the Secretary of the Interior, where funds are appropriated for Indians, to provide a preference to Indian preference enterprises that provide the greatest economic impact on Indian reservations in the award of a contract.  Directs the Secretary to require the recipient of such a contract to provide training and employment preferences to Indians and preference to Indian preference enterprises in awarding any subcontracts under the contract. Requires the Secretary to provide a weighted preference to enterprises that meet specified criteria. Credits an enterprise that bids on a contract with a deduction equal to two percent of its bid amount for each of three specified factors that the enterprise swears it will satisfy in carrying out the contract. Subjects enterprises which fail to satisfy any of the factors which they swore they would satisfy to a penalty of ten percent of the contract amount, subject to reduction under certain circumstances. Requires the contracting officer to refer the matter to the appropriate United States Attorney for a determination of whether prosecution for fraud is appropriate if the officer believes that the matter involves deliberate misrepresentation by the enterprise. Requires a prospective awardee to submit an Indian preference compliance plan that is acceptable to the contracting officer before receiving any contract award. Authorizes the Secretary to utilize Indian preference in the award of contracts that do not involve funds for the benefit of Indians if the Secretary believes the preference will help fulfill his or her responsibilities toward Indians. Provides that the Secretary may, in his discretion, establish annual objectives for each Bureau and office within the Department of the Interior for the total amount obligated for contracts and subcontracts entered into with Indian preference enterprises owned and controlled by Indians or Indian tribes, the majority of the earnings of which directly benefit such individuals or tribes. Provides that the preferences provided by this Act shall have priority over all other Federal procurement preferences. Specifies the applicability of the amendments made by this Act to the Buy Indian Act with respect to the awarding of contracts under the Indian Self-Determination and Educational Assistance Act by the Department of the Interior. Provides that this Act shall apply to all Indian preference enterprises of all Indian tribes. Sets forth special rules governing implementation of the preferences provided under this Act in the awarding of Federal agency contracts. Requires the Department of the Interior, to the greatest extent feasible, to advertise Indian preference contracts before performance under such contracts must begin to permit a subsequent open market advertisement of the contract if it cannot be awarded under such rules through limited competition to an Indian preference enterprise. Provides that the requirements of the Small Business Competitiveness Demonstration Program Act of 1988 shall not apply to contracts awarded pursuant to this Act. Mandates Department of Interior contract set asides for small and tribally-owned businesses. Requires an Indian preference enterprise to provide an affidavit certifying that it meets the requirements to be certified as eligible for the preferences provided under this Act. Requires the Secretary to verify the accuracy of the affidavit by conducting an on-site visit to the enterprise.  Allows the visit to be waived if it is in the best interest of the Federal Government. Sets forth special rules governing Indian preference enterprise joint ventures. Establishes a mechanism for enterprises to self-certify themselves as eligible for the preferences provided under this Act. Allows:  (1) the  Department of the Interior to investigate an enterprise's eligibility for such preferences; and (2) specified parties to file protests challenging an enterprise's self-certification. Establishes within the Department of the Interior an Office of Indian Business Utilization as the principal Federal office responsible for overseeing the administration of this Act. Requires the Secretary to revoke the enterprise's certification if it is found to have falsely certified itself as eligible for the preferences provided under this Act. Provides for appeal of denials of certification as an Indian preference enterprise. Authorizes Federal agencies to delegate to an Indian tribal government the responsibility for monitoring a contractor's compliance with the agency's Indian preference requirements, under certain conditions. Provides for penalties with respect to individuals who misrepresent their status or the status of an enterprise in order to obtain a preference under this Act. Requires the Secretary, through the Director of the Office of Indian Business Utilization, to establish an Indian Enterprise Bonding Demonstration Program to assist Indian enterprises in obtaining bonds from traditional surety companies. Provides that the Secretary may, at his or her discretion, waive provisions of the Miller Act with respect to a Federal agency contract awarded to an Indian preference enterprise, if, among other criteria, the award price of the contract is anticipated to be $500,000 or less. Requires each agency of the Department of the Interior that issues a contract or subcontract under this Act or specified other Acts authorizing Federal contracts with Indian organizations or for the benefit of Indians to comply with the requirements of the Prompt Payment Act. Requires the Secretary to provide an alternative dispute resolution procedure for use by Indian preference enterprises. Amends the Federal criminal code to establish criminal penalties for violations of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to negotiate and enter into cooperative agreements with Indian tribes to engage in cooperative manpower and job training and development programs. Requires the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service, in all matters connected with establishing or developing facilities to provide services or assistance to Indians, to locate such facilities on tribal lands, unless patently not feasible to do so.  Provides that any employment opportunities at such facilities shall be subject to the employment preferences provided by this Act. Requires the Secretary to enter into contracts with an eligible entity to establish and operate an Indian Enterprise Data Center to collect information on Indian preference enterprises. Requires the Center to provide an annual list of Indian enterprises eligible for various minority preferences to the Federal agencies that administer such preferences, and to private entities requesting such list.",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-s-3095,102,s,3095,Jena Band of Choctaws of Louisiana Restoration Act,Native Americans,1992-07-29,1992-10-21,Pocket Vetoed by President.,Senate,"Sen. Johnston, J. Bennett [D-LA]",LA,D,J000189,0,"Jena Band of Choctaws of Louisiana Restoration Act - Restores Federal recognition and associated services and benefits to the Jena Band of Choctaw of Louisiana. Directs that the Tribe be governed by an Interim Council until the Secretary of the Interior, upon the written request of the Council, conducts an election to adopt a constitution for the Tribe, and for the election of tribal officials.",2025-08-26T15:15:04Z,
102-hr-5686,102,hr,5686,To make technical amendments to certain Federal Indian statutes.,Native Americans,1992-07-23,1992-10-24,Became Public Law No: 102-497.,House,"Rep. Rhodes, John J., III [R-AZ-1]",AZ,R,R000189,2,"Amends Federal law to make specified land description changes with respect to the Reservation of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon. Amends the Ponca Restoration Act to extend by one year the two-year deadline by which the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) must submit to the Congress an economic development plan for the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska. Authorizes the Secretary:  (1) in accordance with Crow Tribal Resolution 91-14 to reprogram judgment funds awarded in Indian Claims Commission Docket No. 54 (1961) and United States Claims Court Docket Nos. 796-71 and 797-71 (1981); and (2) in accordance with Shoshone - Bannock Tribal Resolution GNCL-91-0616, to reprogram judgment funds awarded in Indian Claims Commission Docket No. 326-C-2 (1985). Authorizes the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians to sell to National Disposal Systems, Inc. (Systems), without further U.S. approval, the Band's real property interests acquired from Systems in Noxubee County, Mississippi. Amends Federal law to permit longer lease terms for trust lands held for:  (1) the Pueblo of Santa Clara; (2) the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation; and (3) the Cahvilla Band of Indians of California. Amends the San Carlos Indian Irrigation Project Divestiture Act of 1991 to extend the Project's implementation deadline. Authorizes the Secretary to use specified funds from an Appropriation Account of the Bureau of Indian Affairs for irrigation improvement at the Wapato Indian Irrigation Project. Southern Arizona Water Rights Settlement Technical Amendments Act of 1992 - Amends the Southern Arizona Water Rights Settlement Act of 1982 to terminate the Cooperative Fund established by such Act if the final judgment in a specified lawsuit (relating to the Tohono O'odham nation) does not dismiss all claims against the defendants. Extends the deadline by nine months under which the United States would have to pay certain related penalties. Amends the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to define ""Native American Pacific Islander"" as an individual who is indigenous to a Pacific Ocean U.S. territory or possession, and includes such individual while residing in the United States.  Eliminates the authorization of appropriations set-aside for Pacific Islanders. Ak-Chin Water Use Amendments Act of 1992 - Amends Federal law to grant the Ak-Chin Indian Community the right to use its permanent water supply for any use in the areas initially designated as the Pinal, Phoenix, and Tucson Active Management Areas pursuant to the Arizona Groundwater Management Act of 1980. Authorizes the Community to lease, extend leases, exchange, or temporarily dispose of its water for such areas, provided:  (1) the term of such lease does not exceed 100 years; and (2) the Community does not permanently alienate any water right. Requires the acceptance and ratification of a contract by the Community's Council as well as the approval of the Secretary before the Community leases, extends leases, exchanges, or temporarily disposes of water. Indian Environmental General Assistance Program Act of 1992 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish an Indian Environmental General Assistance Program of grants to eligible tribal governments or intertribal consortia for environmental protection programs on Indian lands.  Authorizes FY 1993 and 1994 appropriations. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to enroll two named individuals as Natives under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Entitles such individuals to a specified amount of shares in Shan-Seet, Inc. States that under such enrollment:  (1) any land entitlements or distributions under such Act shall not be affected; and (2) the individuals shall not be entitled to any prior distributions under such Act. Directs the Secretary to transfer the Bureau of Indian Affairs Agency in Bethel, Alaska, to the Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation by September 30, 1993.  Requires the Secretary and the Secretary of the Air Force to share the costs of related hazardous waste and substance cleanup. Extends the grace period for class III gaming activity conducted on Indian lands in Montana.  Makes a conforming amendment to the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. Amends Federal law to authorize the Attorney General to settle any action brought to contest the constitutionality or validity of specified distribution to all other Sisseton and Wahpeton Sioux.",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-s-2989,102,s,2989,A bill to provide additional time to negotiate settlement of a land dispute in South Carolina.,Native Americans,1992-07-20,1992-09-15,Referred to Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice.,Senate,"Sen. Thurmond, Strom [R-SC]",SC,R,T000254,1,"Extends the statute of limitations until October 1, 1993, with respect to certain land claims in South Carolina by the Catawba Indians.",2025-07-21T19:32:26Z,
102-hr-5562,102,hr,5562,To restore and extend Federal recognition to the Catawba Nation.,Native Americans,1992-07-07,1992-07-08,Committee Hearings Held.,House,"Del. Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. [D-AS-At Large]",AS,D,F000010,0,"Restores and extends Federal recognition, rights, and services to the Catawba Nation (Tribe). States that tribal authority, including hunting, fishing, and water rights, shall not be affected by this Act. Treats Catawba reservation land as a Federal Indian reservation. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to accept and hold in trust for the Tribe any trust land conveyed by South Carolina.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
102-hr-5566,102,hr,5566,To provide additional time to negotiate settlement of a land dispute in South Carolina.,Native Americans,1992-07-07,1992-08-11,Became Public Law No: 102-339.,House,"Rep. Spratt, John M., Jr. [D-SC-5]",SC,D,S000749,0,"Extends the statute of limitations until October 1, 1993, with respect to certain land claims in South Carolina by the Catawba Indians.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
102-s-2939,102,s,2939,Fort Mojave Water Use Act of 1992,Native Americans,1992-07-02,1992-07-02,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.,Senate,"Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]",AZ,R,M000303,0,Fort Mojave Water Use Act of 1992 - Authorizes the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe to lease for use in Arizona up to 5000 acre-feet of Colorado River water for up to 25 years.,2025-08-26T15:14:12Z,
102-s-2975,102,s,2975,Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 1992,Native Americans,1992-07-02,1992-10-09,Referred to the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.,Senate,"Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]",AZ,R,M000303,0,"Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 1992 - Ratifies the Settlement Agreement entered into by the city of Prescott, Arizona, the Chino Valley Irrigation District (District), the Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe (Tribe), the State of Arizona, and the United States providing for the settlement of all water claims between and among the parties.  Grants such water rights to the Tribe in perpetuity. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to acquire the Central Arizona Project (CAP) contract from the Tribe and its subcontract from Prescott in exchange for funds appropriated to the Verde River Basin Water Fund (established by this Act).  Allows assignment of water to the Fort McDowell Indian Community.  Sets forth priority and cost exclusion provisions. Directs the Secretary to establish the Verde River Basin Water Fund to be used to develop replacement water for the CAP water relinquished under this Act.  Requires:  (1) the Tribe and Prescott to establish related trust accounts; (2) the parties to comply with environmental law and regulations; and (3) Arizona to contribute $200,000 to the Tribe's trust fund. Authorizes the Secretary to:  (1) establish a groundwater plan for the Yavapai-Prescott reservation; and (2) undertake a water study with respect to the U.S. trust responsibility to the Tonto Apache Tribe of Arizona. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Geological Survey, to establish and maintain a specified gauging station to assist the Tribe and the District to allocate certain surface water.",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-s-2977,102,s,2977,Indian Agricultural Resources Management Act of 1992,Native Americans,1992-07-02,1992-10-09,Referred to the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.,Senate,"Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD]",SD,D,D000064,5,"Indian Agricultural Resources Management Act of 1992 - Title I: General Provisions - States that existing Federal laws do not sufficiently assure the adequate and necessary trust management of Indian rangelands and farmlands. Sets forth findings, purposes, and definitions. Title II:  Rangeland and Farmland Enhancement - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to manage Indian rangelands and farmlands, either directly or through cooperative agreements, self-determination contracts, and grants under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act.  Enumerates management conservation, agricultural production, agribusiness, leasing, and other objectives. Requires a reservation-by-reservation resource management planning program. Requires the Secretary's recognition of tribal governments for purposes of their participation in such land management activities. Requires compliance with tribal laws pertaining to Indian agricultural lands. Directs the Secretary to assemble a task force to develop a comparative analysis of Federal investment and management efforts for Indian trust lands as compared to federally owned lands managed by other Federal agencies. Authorizes the Secretary to approve leasing of Indian rangelands or farmlands under specified conditions.  Directs the Secretary, when authorized by an appropriate tribal resolution establishing a general policy for leasing Indian agricultural lands, to:  (1) provide a preference to Indian operators, so long as the lessor receives fair market value; (2) waive or modify a required surety or performance bond; and (3) when the tribe defines highly fractionated undivided heirship lands, waive or modify general notice provisions and negotiate and lease or permit such lands to prevent waste, reduce idle land acreage, and ensure income.  Sets forth rights of individual land owners. Title III:  Education in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management - Requires the establishment, in the Bureau of Indian Affairs or elsewhere, of at least 20 natural resources intern positions for Indians and Alaska Native students.  Requires establishment of a cooperative education program for employment of Indian and Alaska Native students in Federal professional natural resource-related positions.  Provides financial assistance under the program. Authorizes a scholarship program and requires outreach programs, postgraduate recruitment programs, education and training programs, and internships to attract and train Indians and Alaska Natives in careers in Indian natural resources management. Authorizes cooperative agreements between the Department of the Interior and Indian tribes for:  (1) manpower and job training related to Department programs and activities; (2) environmental education and natural resources planning materials development and publication; and (3) land and facility improvements and other activities related to land and natural resource management and development. Provides for obligated service and breach of contract repayments. Title IV:  Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations. Title V:  Miscellaneous - Provides for regulations and severability of this Act.  Prohibits construing this Act as diminishing or expanding U.S. trust responsibility.",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-hr-5492,102,hr,5492,Indian Environmental Assistance Program Act,Native Americans,1992-06-25,1992-08-07,Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.,House,"Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]",CA,D,M000725,0,"Indian Environmental Assistance Program Act - Title I:  Indian Environmental Integrated Assistance - Authorizes the Administrator (Administrator) of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make a single integrated environment program award to an Indian tribe. Prohibits the amount of a consolidated grant from being less than the aggregate sum of all grants consolidated. Authorizes the Indian tribe receiving such consolidated grant to determine the proportion of its proceeds to be allocated among the pertinent programs. Authorizes the Administrator, with regard to such integrated assistance awards, to:  (1) waive any matching funds or written application or reporting requirements; and (2) adjust any maintenance or level of effort requirements. Title II:  General Assistance Program - Directs the Administrator to establish an Indian Environmental General Assistance Program to provide grants to eligible Indian tribal governments or intertribal consortia for planning, development, and establishing environmental protection programs on Indian lands. Establishes an annual minimum general assistance grant of $75,000. Prohibits such a grant from exceeding more than ten percent of the funds appropriated under this Act. Allows the term of any such grant to exceed one year.  Authorizes an Indian tribal government or intertribal consortium to receive a general assistance grant for a maximum of four years in each specific media area. Declares that the award of such grant shall not result in reduction of EPA grants for environmental program to such tribal government or consortium.  Permits the receipt of individual media grants or cooperative agreements. Includes the development and implementation of solid and hazardous waste programs for Indian lands among the purposes of such assistance. Authorizes appropriations.  Title III:  Authority to Grant State Status to Indian Tribes for Enforcement of Solid Waste Disposal Act - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to authorize the Administrator to grant State status to qualifying Indian tribes for purposes of enforcing such Act on Indian lands.  Authorizes related Indian-State cooperative agreements. Directs the Administrator to:  (1) undertake an inventory of tribal hazardous waste and solid waste open dump sites; and (2) assist in the upgrading of open dump  facilities.",2025-08-26T15:14:21Z,
102-hjres-509,102,hjres,509,"To extend through September 30, 1992, the period in which there remains available for obligation certain amounts appropriated for the Bureau of Indian Affairs for the school operations costs of Bureau-funded schools.",Native Americans,1992-06-18,1992-07-02,Became Public Law No: 102-316.,House,"Rep. Yates, Sidney R. [D-IL-9]",IL,D,Y000013,0,Extends the period that certain funds for Bureau of Indian Affairs' schools shall remain available for obligation.,2024-02-05T11:50:03Z,
102-hr-5382,102,hr,5382,Native American Languages Act of 1991,Native Americans,1992-06-11,1992-06-11,Referred to the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.,House,"Rep. Martinez, Matthew G. [D-CA-30]",CA,D,M000206,0,"Native American Languages Act of 1991 - Amends the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants, under specified conditions, to organizations to assist Native Americans in assuring the survival and continuing vitality of their languages. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T15:13:38Z,
102-s-2833,102,s,2833,Crow Settlement Act,Native Americans,1992-06-11,1992-08-12,"Referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources pursuant to the order of of June 12, 1992.",Senate,"Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]",MT,D,B000243,1,"Crow Settlement Act - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to enter into a contract with:  (1) the Crow Tribe for the settlement of the 107th Meridian dispute over the western boundary of the Crow Indian Reservation, Montana; and (2) the Northern Cheyenne Tribe for settlement of lands relating to such dispute included in the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. Makes such contracts enforceable under specified sections of title 5 or title 28 of the United States Code. Sets forth contract terms with the Crow Tribe and the Northern Cheyenne Tribe concerning property issues related to the boundary dispute, including coal, oil, and other mineral ownership. Requires an exchange of Montana public lands for State school lands within the Crow Indian Reservation and the disputed area.  Makes special provision for the Yellowtail Afterbay Dam and construction of a powerplant and bypass. Establishes in the Treasury the Crow Tribal Trust Account. Revokes, upon effect of the settlement contract with the Crow Tribe and the Secretary, the authority of the Bureau of Reclamation to operate specified irrigation projects. Authorizes appropriations.",2026-03-24T12:48:03Z,
102-s-2836,102,s,2836,A bill to promote economic development on Indian reservations by making loans to States to assist States in constructing roads on Indian reservations.,Native Americans,1992-06-11,1992-08-06,Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.,Senate,"Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]",AZ,R,M000303,1,"Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, from Highway Trust Fund moneys apportioned for Indian reservation roads, to make loans to States for Indian reservation road construction.",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-hr-5346,102,hr,5346,Native Hawaiian Health Care Amendments of 1992,Native Americans,1992-06-09,1992-08-12,"Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 486.",House,"Rep. Abercrombie, Neil [D-HI-1]",HI,D,A000014,1,"Native Hawaiian Health Care Amendments of 1992 - Amends the Native Hawaiian Health Care Act of 1988 to set specified Health objectives for Native Hawaiians to be met by the year 2000.  Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to report to the Congress annually on progress being made toward meeting such objectives. States that an entity qualifying to receive primary and preventive health grants must be a Native Hawaiian health care system.  Limits to five (currently nine) the number of grant or contract recipients. Makes Papa Ola Lokahi (the Statewide Native Hawaiian health coordinating agency) responsible for the:  (1) implementation and updating of the Native Hawaiian health care master plan; (2) training for specified health care pratitioners, community outreach workers, counselors, and cultural educators; (3) identification of and research into the diseases that are most prevalent among Native Hawaiians; (4) development of an action plan outlining the contributions that each member organization of Papa Ola Lokahi will make in carrying out this Act. Permits Papa Ola Lokahi to receive special project funds that may be appropriated for the purpose of research on the health status of Native Hawaiians or for addressing the health care needs of Native Hawaiians. Requires Papa Ola Lokahi to serve as a clearinghouse for:  (1) the collection and maintenance of data associated with the health status of Native  Hawaiians; (2) the identification and research into diseases affecting Native Hawaiians; (3) the availability of Native Hawaiian project funds, research projects, and publications; (4) the collaboration of research in the area of Native Hawaiian health; and (5) the dissemination of information pertinent to the Native Hawaiian health care systems. Exempts Papa Ola Lokahi from the ten percent limitation on the use of grants for administrative costs. Revises the Native Hawaiian health scholarships program to make scholarship grants available under the same terms as the National Health Service corps, provided that:  (1) the types of practitioners for which grants  are to be directed shall be based upon the needs of the Native Hawaiian health care systems, as identified by Papa Ola Lokahi; (2) priority shall be  given to applicants identified by the Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate; and (3) service obligation shall be met by service in one of the Native Hawaiian health care systems, or in a health care shortage area. States that such scholarship program shall not be administered by or through the Indian Health Service. Redefines for purposes of such Act:  (1)  ""Native Hawaiian"" (requiring the individual to be a U.S. citizen); (2) ""Native Hawaiian health care system""; and (3) ""Papa Ola Lokahi."" Authorizes appropriations.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
102-hconres-321,102,hconres,321,Expressing the support of the Congress for the 1992 reauthorization of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.,Native Americans,1992-05-20,1992-06-05,Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.,House,"Rep. Thomas, Craig [R-WY-At Large]",WY,R,T000162,8,Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Indian Health Care Improvement Act is the cornerstone of U.S. efforts to:  (1) improve the health status of American Indians and Alaska Natives; (2) maintain a high quality and cost effective health care system; and (3) provide a framework within which American Indians and Alaska Natives can participate in health care decisions affecting their communities.,2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
102-s-2746,102,s,2746,Overseas Private Investment Corporation Indian Eligibility Act of 1992,Native Americans,1992-05-20,1992-07-21,Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 102-916.,Senate,"Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]",HI,D,I000025,3,Overseas Private Investment Corporation Indian Eligibility Act of 1992 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to consider an American Indian tribe to be a less developed country for purposes of Overseas Private Investment Corporation programs.,2025-08-26T15:15:34Z,
102-s-2750,102,s,2750,"Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Nations of Oklahoma Claims Act of 1992",Native Americans,1992-05-20,1992-05-28,Referred to Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice.,Senate,"Sen. Boren, David L. [D-OK]",OK,D,B000639,1,"Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Nations of Oklahoma Claims Act of 1992 - Directs the Treasury to pay to the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Cherokee Nations such sums (to such extent and in such amounts as are provided in advance in appropriations Acts) as shall be determined in valuation proceedings brought in the U.S. Court of Claims or the U.S.  District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma for damages resulting from the use and occupation by the United States of that portion of the bed and banks of the Arkansas River owned by each such Nation pursuant to treaties with the United States as confirmed by the decision in Choctaw Nation against Oklahoma.",2025-08-26T15:16:33Z,
102-hr-5122,102,hr,5122,Jicarilla Apache Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act,Native Americans,1992-05-07,1992-10-23,Became Public Law No: 102-441.,House,"Rep. Richardson, Bill [D-NM-3]",NM,D,R000229,0,"Jicarilla Apache Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act - Ratifies and approves the Settlement Contract between the Secretary of the Interior and the Jicarilla Apache Tribe of Indians in New Mexico for the resolution of water rights claims. Makes specified amounts of water available under the Contract from the Navajo Reservoir or River and the San Juan-Chama Project. Entitles the Tribe to use return flows attributable to uses of the water as long as water depletions do not exceed amounts set forth in this Act. Authorizes the Tribe, subject to the Secretary's approval and when water made available under the Contract is not being used, to sell, exchange, lease, or temporarily dispose of the water.  Prohibits the Tribe from permanently alienating rights under the Contract.  Limits terms of water use subcontracts, including renewals, to 99 years.  Subjects subcontracts to the Secretary's approval. Establishes in the Treasury the Jicarilla Apache Water Resources Fund.  Authorizes appropriations for:  (1) water resources development costs; and (2) payment of the Tribe's share of operation and replacement costs for the San Juan-Chama Project (assuming certain waivers apply). Prohibits the expenditure of such authorized funds until:  (1) certain actions brought by the Tribe against the United States are dismissed; and (2) certain partial final decrees quantifying water rights claims with New Mexico have been entered into.  Terminates the Fund if such partial final decrees are not entered into by December 31, 1996.",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-s-2681,102,s,2681,Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act,Native Americans,1992-05-07,1992-10-04,Rule H. Res. 593 passed House.,Senate,"Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]",HI,D,I000025,1,"Retitles the Native Hawaiian Health Care Act of 1988 as the Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act and sets forth its provisions. Declares it to be the policy of the United States, in fulfillment of its special responsibilities and legal obligations to the indigenous people of Hawaii, to meet specified health objectives for Native Hawaiians by the year 2000.  Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to report annually to the Congress on progress made toward meeting these objectives. Makes Papa Ola Lokahi (the Statewide Native Hawaiian health coordinating agency) responsible for:  (1) implementation and updating of the Native Hawaiian health care master plan; (2) training for specified health care practitioners, community outreach workers, counselors, and cultural educators; (3) identification of and research into the diseases that are most prevalent among Native Hawaiians; and (4) development of an action plan outlining the contributions that each member organization of Papa Ola Lokahi will make in carrying out this Act. Authorizes appropriations for implementing and updating the Native Hawaiian health care master plan. Permits Papa Ola Lokahi to receive special project funds that may be appropriated for the purpose of research on the health status of Native Hawaiians or for addressing the health care needs of Native Hawaiians. Requires Papa Ola Lokahi to serve as a clearinghouse for:  (1) collection and maintenance of data associated with the health status of Native Hawaiians; (2) identification and research into diseases affecting Native Hawaiians; (3) availability of Native Hawaiian project funds, research projects, and publications; (4) collaboration of research in the area of Native Hawaiian health; and (5) dissemination of information pertinent to the Native Hawaiian health care system. Directs Papa Ola Lokahi to:  (1) coordinate and assist the health care programs and services provided to Native Hawaiians; and (2) act as a statewide infrastructure to provide technical support and coordination of training and technical assistance to Native Hawaiian health care systems. Makes eligible for grants or contracts for providing health services to Native Hawaiian health care systems (currently, Native Hawaiian health centers or organizations or public or nonprofit private health providers).  Limits to five (currently, nine) the number of grant or contract recipients.  Revises matching fund requirements for such grants or contracts.  Prohibits the awarding of grant or contract funds unless the recipient agrees that the funds will not be expended:  (1) for purposes not listed under this Act; (2) to provide inpatient services; (3) to make cash payments to intended recipients of health services; or (4) to purchase or improve real property or to purchase major medical equipment.  Authorizes appropriations through FY 2000. Authorizes related grants or contracts for planning Native Hawaiian health care systems on the islands of O'ahu, Moloka'i, Maui, Hawai'i, Lana'i, Kaua'i, and Ni'ithau in the State of Hawaii.  Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes appropriations through FY 2001 for administrative grants to Papa Ola Lokahi. Sets forth terms and conditions for grants or contracts made under this Act.  Authorizes the Secretary to assign Department of Health and Human Services to work with Native Hawaiian health care programs. Revises the Native Hawaiian health scholarships program to make scholarship grants available under the same terms as the National Health Service corps, provided that:  (1) the types of practitioners for which grants  are to be directed shall be based upon the needs of the Native Hawaiian health care systems, as identified by Papa Ola Lokahi; (2) priority shall be  given to applicants identified by the Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate; and (3) service obligation shall be met by service in one of the Native Hawaiian health care systems, or in a health care shortage area.  Authorizes appropriations through FY 2001. States that such scholarship program shall not be administered by or through the Indian Health Service. Requires the President to submit to the Congress an annual report on the progress made in meeting the objectives of this Act. Repeals a specified demonstration program authorized under the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-s-2684,102,s,2684,Jicarilla Apache Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act,Native Americans,1992-05-07,1992-06-16,Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.,Senate,"Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]",NM,R,D000407,1,"Jicarilla Apache Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act - Ratifies and approves the Settlement Contract between the Secretary of the Interior and the Jicarilla Apache Tribe of Indians in New Mexico for the resolution of water rights claims. Makes specified amounts of water available under the Contract from the Navajo Reservoir or River and the San Juan-Chama Project.  Entitles the Tribe to use return flows attributable to uses of the water as long as water depletions do not exceed amounts set forth in this Act. Authorizes the Tribe, subject to the Secretary's approval and when water made available under the Contract is not being used, to sell, exchange, lease, or temporarily dispose of the water. Prohibits the Tribe from permanently alienating rights under the Contract.  Limits terms of water use subcontracts, including renewals, to 99 years.  Subjects subcontracts to the Secretary's approval. Authorizes appropriations for:  (1) a water resources development trust fund to be used by the Tribe; and (2) the Tribe's share of the operation, maintenance,and replacement costs for the San Juan-Chama Project, when the Secretary has waived the Tribe's obligation to pay such costs under the Contract.  Sets forth waivers with respect to the Tribe's share of costs of the Navajo Reservoir and the San Juan-Chama Project. Prohibits the use of water authorized for the initial stage of the San Juan-Chama Project to offset the impacts of other water projects in the San Juan River Basin in order to comply with the Endangered Species Act of 1973.",2025-08-26T15:18:21Z,
102-hr-5029,102,hr,5029,"To declare that the United States holds certain lands in trust for the Camp Verde Yavapai-Apache Indian Community, and for other purposes.",Native Americans,1992-04-29,1992-04-29,Referred to the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.,House,"Rep. Stump, Bob [R-AZ-3]",AZ,R,S001044,0,"Declares that the United States holds certain lands in Yavapai County, Arizona, in trust for the Camp Verde Yavapai-Apache Indian Community (the Community). Subjects the transfer of certain lands to the town of Camp Verde to the condition that they are used for public purposes. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to:  (1) grant easements for specified purposes; (2) first consult with authorities representing the town of Camp Verde, and provide a forum for public input and recommendations, before approving any plans relating to use of such lands; and (3) make available a specified amount, which is authorized to be appropriated, to the Community to assist it in developing a comprehensive land use plan and to defray any costs for lands transferred to the Community pursuant to this Act.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
102-s-2637,102,s,2637,Indian Housing Development Act of 1992,Native Americans,1992-04-29,1992-04-29,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.,Senate,"Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]",AZ,R,M000303,1,"Indian Housing Development Act of 1992 - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to reserve specified authorization of appropriations for Indian public housing. Reserves a specified percentage of comprehensive improvement assistance funds, in addition to any other funds authorized by such Act, for certain Indian housing authorities. Provides that assistance under such Act shall be available only to members of federally recognized Indian tribes residing on Indian reservations, except for Indian families receiving assistance before enactment of this Act. Exempts Indian housing programs from specified requirements regarding:  (1) wage rates; and (2) new construction. Transfers the Indian housing improvement program from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior, to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.  States that the program shall be administered in a manner that will assure decent, safe, and sanitary housing. Applies certain provisions of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to Indian public housing. Authorizes grants for technical housing assistance.  Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T15:17:38Z,
102-s-2617,102,s,2617,Indian Dams Safety Act of 1992,Native Americans,1992-04-10,1992-10-06,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 805.,Senate,"Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]",NM,D,B000468,0,"Indian Dams Safety Act of 1992 - Establishes a dam safety operation and maintenance program (program) within the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Directs the Secretary of the Interior to:  (1) develop a comprehensive list of dams located on Indian lands that are in a satisfactory, fair, conditionally poor, poor, or unsatisfactory condition; (2) perform such rehabilitation work as is necessary to bring such dams to a satisfactory condition. Requires that the dam, upon completion of rehabilitation work, be placed under the program and be regularly maintained pursuant to program guidelines. Specifies that work authorized by this Act shall be for the purposes of dam safety operation and maintenance and not to provide additional conservation storage capacity or to develop benefits beyond those provided by the original dams and reservoirs. Authorizes the Secretary to:  (1) obtain technical assistance from agencies under his jurisdiction in addition to the BIA, or from other departments through memoranda of understanding, to carry out the purposes of this Act (but specifies that the safety of the dams program and the operation and maintenance program shall remain under BIA direction); and (2) contract with appropriate Indian tribes to carry out the program. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-hr-4948,102,hr,4948,Ak-Chin Water Use Amendments Act of 1992,Native Americans,1992-04-09,1992-10-03,See H.R.5686.,House,"Rep. Rhodes, John J., III [R-AZ-1]",AZ,R,R000189,0,"Ak-Chin Water Use Amendments Act of 1992 - Amends Federal law to grant the Ak-Chin Indian Community the right to use its permanent water supply for any use in the areas initially designated as the Pinal, Phoenix, and Tucson Active Management Areas pursuant to the Arizona Groundwater Management Act of 1980. Authorizes the Community to lease, extend leases, exchange, or temporarily dispose of its water for such areas, provided:  (1) the term of such lease does not exceed 100 years; and (2) the Community does not permanently alienate any water right. Requires the acceptance and ratification of a contract by the Community's Council as well as the approval of the Secretary of the Interior before the Community leases, extends leases, exchanges, or temporarily disposes of water.",2025-08-26T15:15:06Z,
102-hr-4766,102,hr,4766,Indian Housing and Community Development Act of 1992,Native Americans,1992-04-03,1992-04-15,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development.,House,"Rep. Bereuter, Doug [R-NE-1]",NE,R,B000403,2,"Indian Housing and Community Development Act of 1992- Title I: General Provisions - Defines specified terms for purposes of this Act. Title II:  Administrator of Indian Programs in Department of Housing and Urban Development - Amends the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act to create in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) the position of Administrator of Indian Programs to administer HUD Indian housing and community development block grant assistance. Title III:  Indian Housing Finance Program - Directs the Secretary of HUD (Secretary) to provide housing assistance from the Indian Housing Finance Fund (established by this Act) through project agreements with Indian housing authorities.  Sets forth provisions regarding:  (1) housing plans; (2) applications; (3) project agreements and assistance; (4) site control; (5) housing assistance contracts; (6) payments and accounts; (7) monitoring and insurance; (8) bonding requirements; (9) maintenance and utilities; (10) sale and alienability of assisted housing; (11) downpayment assistance; (12) rental housing; (13) support facilities; and (14) operating assistance. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program under which each Indian housing authority that enters into a project agreement may carry out a local family self-sufficiency program. Establishes in the Treasury the Indian Housing Finance Fund. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV:  Indian Housing Loan Guarantee Program - Authorizes the Secretary to provide loan guarantees to Indian families or Indian housing authorities for housing located on trust land or land located in an Indian or Alaska Native area. Establishes in the Treasury the Indian Housing Loan Guarantee Fund. Authorizes appropriations. Title V:  Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to obligate specified community development block grant funds to improve the management capabilities and capacity of Indian housing authorities. Directs:  (1) the General Accounting Office to audit and evaluate Indian housing authorities in carrying out this Act; and (2) the Secretary to conduct biennial Indian housing inventories. Title VI:  Program Terminations and Transition - Terminates specified Indian housing assistance programs under the United States Housing Act of 1937 after September 30, 1995. Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to repeal the applicability of the HOPE for public housing homeownership program to Indian public housing. Title VII:  National American Indian Housing Council - Authorizes appropriations for the National American Indian Housing Council to provide Indian housing authorities with training and technical assistance.",2025-08-26T15:13:59Z,
102-s-2507,102,s,2507,Ak-Chin Water Use Amendments Act of 1992,Native Americans,1992-04-01,1992-10-03,See H.R.4948.,Senate,"Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]",AZ,R,M000303,1,"Ak-Chin Water Use Amendments Act of 1992 - Amends Federal law to grant the Ak-Chin Indian Community the right to use its permanent water supply for any use in the areas initially designated as the Pinal, Phoenix, and Tucson Active Management Areas pursuant to the Arizona Groundwater Management Act of 1980. Authorizes the Community to lease, extend leases, exchange, or temporarily dispose of its water for such areas, provided:  (1) the term of such lease does not exceed 100 years; and (2) the Community does not permanently alienate any water right. Requires the acceptance and ratification of a contract by the Community's Council as well as the approval of the Secretary of the Interior before the Community leases, extends leases, exchanges, or temporarily disposes of water.",2025-08-26T15:14:43Z,
102-hr-4592,102,hr,4592,Native American Programs Amendments of 1992,Native Americans,1992-03-26,1992-04-16,Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.,House,"Del. Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. [D-AS-At Large]",AS,D,F000010,0,Native American Programs Amendments of 1992 - Amends the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to increase the authorization of appropriations for programs for Native American Pacific Islanders.,2025-08-26T15:16:34Z,
102-hr-4694,102,hr,4694,Kenai Native Equity Act,Native Americans,1992-03-26,1992-10-08,See H.R.6072.,House,"Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]",AK,R,Y000033,0,"Kenai Native Equity Act - Grants to the United States all right, title, and interest of the Kenai Natives Association, Inc.  in specified lands in Alaska to be added to the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge upon delivery by the Corporation to the Secretary of the Interior of a recordable instrument conveying such lands in exchange for all right, title, and interest in certain Federal lands. Removes the lands conveyed by the United States from the Refuge together with those previously conveyed to the Corporation and not reconveyed to the United States. Deems the entitlement of the Corporation to certain lands under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act fully satisfied and discharged. Designates the old Kenai Native Village site and cemetery located on the south side of the Kenai River as a National Historical Site. Gives the Kenai Natives, their families, and descendants a perpetual right and easement of access to visit it.",2025-08-26T15:14:03Z,
102-s-2481,102,s,2481,Indian Health Amendments of 1992,Native Americans,1992-03-25,1992-10-29,Became Public Law No: 102-573.,Senate,"Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]",HI,D,I000025,16,"Indian Health Amendments of 1992 - Amends the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to state that it is the intent of the Congress that the Nation meet specified health status objectives with respect to Indians and urban Indians by the year 2000. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to report to the President, for transmission to the Congress, on the progress made in meeting each stated objective. Title I:  Indian Health Professionals - Directs the Secretary to make preparatory scholarship grants for:  (1) up to two years on a full-time basis (or the part-time equivalent) to Indians who have demonstrated the capability to successfully complete courses of study in the health professions; and (2) up to four years (or the part-time equivalent) for pregraduate education of any grantee leading to a baccalaureate degree in an approved course of study preparatory to such health professions. Prohibits the Secretary from denying scholarship assistance to an eligible applicant solely by reason of such applicant's eligibility for other Federal assistance. Authorizes the Secretary to grant health professions scholarships to Indians who are enrolled full or part-time in appropriately accredited schools and pursuing courses of study in the health professions. Permits an Indian Health Scholarship recipient to meet active duty requirements through service on his or her reservation or to his or her tribe. Provides that the period for a part-time scholarship shall not exceed the part-time equivalent of four years. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Indian Health Service (Service), to establish a Placement Office to develop a national policy for the placement within the Service of health professionals required to meet the active duty obligation prescribed under the Public Health Service Act without regard to any competitive personnel system, agency personnel limitation, or Indian preference policy. Makes an individual liable to the United States for the amount paid to or on the individual's behalf under a written Indian health professions contract for specified breaches. Entitles the United States to recover an amount determined by a specified formula from any individual who fails to begin or complete such service obligations. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Service, to provide: (1) continuing education allowances to nurses employed by the Service; and (2) grants to establish and develop clinics operated by nurses, nurse midwives, or nurse practitioners to provide primary health care services to Indians.  Allocates funds for the training of nurse practitioners. Directs the Secretary to establish a program at the University of North Dakota to be known as the Quentin N.  Burdick American Indians Into Nursing Program. Requires that as of FY 1993 at least 25 percent of annual retention bonuses be awarded to nurses. Requires the Secretary, acting through the Service, to establish a program to enable licensed practical nurses, licensed vocational nurses, and registered nurses working in an Indian health program for at least one year to pursue advanced training in a residency program. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Service, to provide grants to nursing schools to establish primary health care clinics for Indians.  Obligates grant funds. Revises the Indian Health Service Loan Repayment Program with respect to:  (1) eligibility and participation requirements; (2) extension of obligated service; (3) undergraduate loans; (4) repayment of loans; (5) tax liability reimbursements; and (6) the Secretary's annual report to the Congress. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Service, to assign one individual in each area office to be responsible on a full-time basis for recruitment activities. Requires the Secretary to provide a grant to a college or university to establish and maintain a program parallel to the Indians into Medicine Program (INMED) for the nursing and mental health professions. Establishes in the Treasury the Indian Health Scholarship and Loan Repayment Recovery Fund. Directs the Secretary, under authority of the Snyder Act, to:  (1) maintain a Community Health Aide Program in Alaska; and (2) provide, in a specified manner, a high standard of training to community health aides to ensure that they provide quality health care, health promotion, and disease prevention services to the villages served by the Program. Requires the Secretary, by contract or otherwise, to provide training for individuals in the administration and planning of tribal health programs. Directs the Secretary to:  (1) make matching grants to tribes and tribal organizations for health professional training scholarships; and (2) provide for training in tribal health program administration. Makes tribally controlled vocational institutions eligible for: (1) nursing program grants; and (2) participation in tribal culture and history programs. Authorizes the Secretary to make a grant to the School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota for a pilot program to address the health and medical manpower shortage in the Aberdeen Area of the Service. Authorizes appropriations. Title II:  Health Services - Authorizes the Secretary to expend appropriated funds under this Act to eliminate the deficiencies in health status and resources of all Indian tribes. Changes the threshold cost established by the Secretary:  (1) for FY 1993 to a minimum of $15,000 and a maximum of $25,000 (currently a minimum of $10,000 to a maximum of $20,000) before a service unit can be eligible for reimbursement from the Catastrophic Health Emergency Fund for the cost of treatment of an individual; and (2) for each succeeding year to the cost of the previous year increased by the percentage increase in the medical care expenditure category of the consumer price index for all urban consumers. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Service, to provide health promotion and disease prevention services to Indians to achieve the health objectives set forth in this Act. Repeals the requirement that the Secretary establish from one to four demonstration projects to discover the most effective and cost-efficient means of providing health promotion and disease prevention services to Indians. Directs the Secretary to continue to maintain specified model diabetes projects in existence through FY 2000. Authorizes the Secretary to establish new model diabetes projects. Prohibits the establishment of a greater number of them in one service area than in another until there is an equal number established with respect to all service areas. Adds to the duties of the diabetes control officer employed in each area office of the Service the task of evaluating the effectiveness of services provided through model diabetes projects established under this Act. Requires the Service to report annually to the President for transmission to the Congress, on the mental health status of Indians. Requires any person employed as a psychologist, marriage and family therapist, or social worker providing clinical mental health care services to Indians to be licensed as such or working under the direct supervision of a licensed clinical psychologist, marriage and family therapist, or social worker. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Service, to provide grants for intermediate mental health services to Indian children and adolescents.  Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the:  (1) feasibility and desirability of furnishing hospice care to terminally ill Indians; (2) determination of the most efficient and effective means of furnishing such care; and (3) feasibility of allowing an Indian tribe to purchase, directly or through the Service, managed care coverage under certain circumstances.  Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to establish a contract health services demonstration program for California Indians.  Provides for reimbursement of related costs for the California Rural Indian Health Board.  Establishes a program advisory board.  Terminates the program on September 30, 1997.  Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Service, to:  (1) provide for screening mammography of Indian and urban Indian women 35 years or older; and (2) provide funds for certain patient travel costs (authorizing appropriations). Directs the Secretary to establish an epidemiology center in each service area. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Service, to award grants to:  (1) Indian tribes for comprehensive school health education programs; and (2) Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations for Indian youth programs.  Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to develop a comprehensive school health education program for Bureau schools.  Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to at least three colleges and universities (one of which shall be to the University of North Dakota to establish a Quentin N. Burdick American Indians into Psychology Program) to develop American Indian psychology career recruitment programs. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Service, to make grants to tribes and tribal organizations to conduct a study of contract health services. Establishes within the Service an Office of Indian Women's Health Care. Authorizes appropriations for specified activities under this title. Title III:  Health Facilities - Requires the Secretary, when evaluating for the Congress the likely impact of the closure of an Indian Health Service hospital or one of its outpatient health care facilities, to specify:  (1) the level of use of such hospital or facility by all eligible Indians; and (2) the distance between such hospital or facility and the nearest operating Service hospital. Authorizes:  (1) the Secretary to provide financial assistance to Indian tribes and communities for safe water and sanitary waste disposal facilities; and (2) the Secretary, acting through the Service, to provide grants to tribes and tribal organizations for construction and expansion of ambulatory care facilities. Revises the priority for grant and contract awards under the Indian health care delivery demonstration project. Authorizes the Bureau to transfer at no cost up to five acres of land at the Chemawa Indian School, Salem, Oregon, for the provision of health care services. Authorizes appropriations for activities under this title. Applies the requirements of the Buy American Act to all procurements with such funds.  Prohibits contracts with persons falsely labeling products as Made in America. Title IV:  Access to Health Services - Prohibits any payments received by a hospital or skilled nursing facility of the Service for services provided to Indians eligible for Medicare benefits from being considered in determining appropriations for health care and services to Indians. Declares that the Secretary has no authority to provide services to an Indian beneficiary with coverage under Medicare in preference to an Indian beneficiary without such coverage. Requires payments to any Service facility made under the Medicaid program to be placed in a special fund to be held by the Secretary and used, in a specified manner, exclusively for making any improvements in the facilities of such Service to achieve compliance with the applicable conditions and requirements of the Social Security Act. Prohibits payments received by such facility for services provided to Indians eligible for benefits under Medicaid from being considered in determining appropriations for the provision of health care and services to Indians. Requires the Secretary to submit to the President, instead of the Congress, for submission with the budget, an accounting of the amount and use of funds reimbursed through Medicare and Medicaid made available to Indian Health Services. Extends the demonstration program for direct billing of Medicare, Medicaid, and other third party payors. Authorizes appropriations for activities under this title. Title V:  Health Services for Urban Indians - Authorizes grants to urban Indian organizations for health care services.  (Currently the Secretary has contract authority only.) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to urban Indian organizations for alcohol and substance abuse related services. States that the Oklahoma City Clinic demonstration project and the Tulsa Clinic demonstration project shall be treated as service units in the allocation of resources and shall not be subject to the terms of the Indian Self-Determination Act. Directs the Secretary, within the Branch of Urban Health Programs of the Service, to make grants or enter into contracts for the administration of urban Indian alcohol programs that were originally established under the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse. Authorizes appropriations for activities under this title. Title VI:  Organizational Improvements - Requires the Secretary to carry out through the Service all scholarship and loan functions under this Act. Requires the Director of the Service to be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.  (Currently the Director is appointed by the Secretary.)  Authorizes a four-year term of service for the Director, who may serve more than one term. Authorizes appropriations for activities under this title. Title VII:  Substance Abuse Programs - Redesignates Title VII of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act as Title VIII. Expands the responsibilities of the Service with respect to the Memorandum of Agreement entered into under the Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1986. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Service, to provide a program of comprehensive alcohol and substance abuse prevention and treatment to members of Indian tribes, including:  (1) programs for pregnant and post-partum women and their children; and (2) grants to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe for a model program. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Service, to enter into contracts with public or private providers of alcohol and substance abuse treatment services to assist the Service in carrying out such programs. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to tribes and tribal organizations for alcohol and substance abuse treatment of Indian women.  Authorizes appropriations.  Obligates 20 percent of appropriations for grants to urban Indian organizations. Directs the Secretary to:  (1) develop a program for acute detoxification and treatment for Indian youth who are alcohol and substance abusers; and (2) operate a youth regional treatment center in each area under the jurisdiction of an area office.  Considers the area offices of the Service in Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona, as one area office.  Considers the one area office in California to be two area offices. Authorizes the Secretary to make funds available to:  (1) the Tanana Chiefs Conference, Incorporated, for a residential youth treatment facility in Fairbanks, Alaska; and (2) the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Corporation to operate a youth treatment facility without regard to certain contract agreement requirements. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Service, to:  (1) identify and use, where appropriate, federally-owned structures suitable as local residential or regional alcohol and substance abuse treatment centers for Indian youth; and (2) establish guidelines to determine their suitability for such purpose. Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary of the Interior, to develop within each Service unit community-based rehabilitation and follow-up services designed to integrate long-term treatment and to monitor and support Indian youth who are alcohol or substance abusers after their return home. Provides for the inclusion of family members in such treatment programs or other appropriate services.  Earmarks at least ten percent of funds appropriated to carry out such programs for outpatient care of adult family members related to the treatment of an Indian youth. Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on:  (1) the incidence and prevalence of the abuse of multiple forms of drugs, including alcohol, among Indian youth residing on Indian reservations and in urban areas; and (2) the interrelationship of such abuse with the incidence of mental illness among such youth. Requires the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary of the Interior, to develop within each service unit, a program to provide training and community education in the areas of alcohol and substance abuse, including the development of community-based training models. Requires the Secretary to make grants to the Navajo Nation to provide residential treatment for alcohol and substance abuse for the Tribe's adult and adolescent members and neighboring tribes. Directs the Navajo Nation to enter into a contract with a Gallup, New Mexico, area institution accredited by the Joint Commission of the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations to provide such comprehensive alcohol and drug treatment. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to tribes and tribal organizations for fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and fetal alcohol effect (FAE) programs.  Directs the Secretary to:  (1) establish an FAS/FAE Task Force; and (2) make grants through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to tribes, tribal organizations, and universities for applied FAS and FAE research projects.  Authorizes appropriations.  Obligates ten percent of appropriations for urban Indian organizations. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Service, to:  (1) make grants through FY 1995 to the 8 Northern Indian Pueblos Council, San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico, for substance abuse treatment services; and (2) make a grant to the Intertribal Addiction Recovery Organization, Inc. (Thunder Child Treatment Center), Sheridan, Wyoming, for the construction of a substance abuse treatment center (authorizing appropriations). Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Service, to enter into contracts with, or make grants to, tribally controlled or other eligible community colleges for demonstration projects to develop educational curricula for substance abuse counseling. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Service, to:  (1) establish a regional youth alcohol and substance abuse prevention and treatment center in Sacaton, Arizona, on the Gila River Indian Reservation; and (2) make grants to the Alaska Native Health Board for a drug and alcohol abuse prevention demonstration program. Amends the Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1986 to:  (1) repeal current part 6 (Indian alcohol and substance abuse treatment and rehabilitation); (2) require Tribal Action Plans to be updated every two years; (3) extend authorization of appropriations for Tribal Action Plan technical assistance; (4) authorize grants and necessary appropriations for substance abuse education and prevention programs; (5) extend authorization of appropriations for a substance abuse newsletter; (6) extend authorization of appropriations for an Indian youth summer program; (7) extend authorization of appropriations for Indian youth emergency shelters and half-way houses; (8) authorize assistance to the Makah Indian Tribe of Washington for investigation and control of illegal narcotic traffic on the Makah Indian Reservation; (9) extend authorization of appropriations for similar narcotics investigation and control activities by the Tohono O'odham Tribe of Arizona and the St. Regis Band of Mohawk Indians of New York on their Reservations; (10) extend authorization of appropriations for the Department of the Interior's program of marijuana eradication and interdiction on Indian lands; (11) extend authorization of appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs' program of law enforcement and judicial training; and (12) extend authorization of appropriations for juvenile detention centers. Title VIII:  Miscellaneous - Directs the President to include with submission of the budget certain reports and statements on meeting the objectives of this Act. Extends to FY 2000 the time during which Arizona is designated as a contract health service delivery area. Continues through FY 1995 the demonstration programs involving treatment for child sexual abuse that were conducted in FY 1991 through the Hopi Tribe and the Asiniboine and Sioux Tribes of Fort Peck Reservation. Authorizes the Secretary and the Secretary of the Interior to establish such programs in any service area, except that the establishment of a greater number of them in one service area than in another is prohibited until there is an equal number established with respect to all service areas. Extends the deadline for:  (1) certain tribal health services management demonstration programs; and (2) an evaluation report by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Service, to enter into contracts with, or make grants to, tribes or tribal organizations for home and community-based care demonstration projects for disabled Indians.  Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Service, to enter into contracts with tribes or tribal organizations to establish up to six long-term care shared services demonstration projects. Directs the Secretary to provide for the dissemination to Indian tribes of the results of demonstration projects under this Act. Gives priority to Indian reservations in matters involving Service facilities or employment projects. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to authorize appropriations for the purpose of providing one-year planning and negotiations grants to certain tribes under the tribal self-governance project. Title IX:  Technical Corrections - Makes technical corrections to the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-hr-4517,102,hr,4517,Native American Languages Act of 1991,Native Americans,1992-03-19,1992-10-05,See S.2044.,House,"Rep. Martinez, Matthew G. [D-CA-30]",CA,D,M000206,0,"Native American Languages Act of 1991 - Amends the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants, under specified conditions, to organizations to assist Native Americans in assuring the survival and continuing vitality of their languages. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T15:15:36Z,
102-hr-4437,102,hr,4437,To authorize funds for the implementation of the settlement agreement reached between the Pueblo de Cochiti and the United States Army Corps of Engineers under the authority of Public Law 100-202.,Native Americans,1992-03-11,1992-08-26,Became Public Law No: 102-358.,House,"Rep. Richardson, Bill [D-NM-3]",NM,D,R000229,0,"Directs the Secretaries of the Interior and of the Army to implement the settlement negotiated under Federal law by the Pueblo de Cochiti of New Mexico and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers relating to seepage problems at the Cochiti Dam on their lands. Makes the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Indian Affairs, responsible for maintenance, repair, and replacement of the underground drainage system upon its completion. Requires the Secretary of the Army to construct such drainage system to correct the high groundwater problem at the dam. Authorizes appropriations.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z,
102-s-2342,102,s,2342,"A bill to amend the Act entitled ""An Act to provide for the disposition of funds appropriated to pay judgement in favor of the Mississippi Sioux Indians in Indian Claims Commission dockets numbered 142, 359, 360, 361, 362, and 363, and for other purposes"", approved October 25, 1972 (86 Stat. 1168 et seq.)",Native Americans,1992-03-11,1992-06-16,Vetoed by President.,Senate,"Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD]",SD,D,D000064,0,"Amends specified Federal law to waive the statute of limitations, lapse of time, or bar of laches with respect to any action of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, the Devils Lakes Sioux Tribe of North Dakota, or the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Council of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of Montana, to contest the constitutionality or validity of such law, if the complaint is filed in the U.S. District Court for Montana by April 1, 1993. Authorizes the Attorney General to settle any action brought under such Federal law.",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-s-2314,102,s,2314,A bill to correct an error in Public Law 100-425 relating to the reservation for the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon.,Native Americans,1992-03-04,1992-03-05,"Referred to Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks.",Senate,"Sen. Johnston, J. Bennett [D-LA]",LA,D,J000189,0,Amends Federal law with respect to the reservation for the Confederated tribes of the Grand Ronde Community to correct the written description (not acreage) of specified lands in Oregon designated as revested Oregon and California Railroad grant lands.,2026-03-24T12:48:03Z,
102-s-2245,102,s,2245,A bill to authorize funds for the implementation of the settlement agreement reached between the Pueblo de Cochiti and the United States Army Corps of Engineers under the authority of Public Law 100-202.,Native Americans,1992-02-20,1992-06-08,Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]",NM,R,D000407,1,"Directs the Secretaries of the Interior and the Army to implement the settlement negotiated under Federal law by the Pueblo de Cochiti of New Mexico and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers relating to seepage problems at the Cochiti Dam on their lands. Makes the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Indian Affairs, responsible for maintenance, repair, and replacement of the underground drainage system upon its completion. Requires the Secretary of the Army to construct such drainage system to correct the high groundwater problem at the dam. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-hr-4209,102,hr,4209,"Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Nations of Oklahoma Claims Act of 1992",Native Americans,1992-02-07,1992-09-18,Referred to Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice.,House,"Rep. Synar, Mike [D-OK-2]",OK,D,S001139,5,"Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Nations of Oklahoma Claims Act of 1992 - Directs the Treasury to pay, to such extent and in such amounts as are provided in advance in appropriations Acts, to the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Cherokee Nations such sums as shall be determined in valuation proceedings brought in the U.S. Court of Claims or the U.S.  District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma for damages resulting from the use and occupation by the United States of that portion of the bed and banks of the Arkansas River owned by each such Nation pursuant to treaties with the United States as confirmed by the decision in Choctaw Nation against Oklahoma.",2025-07-21T19:32:26Z,
102-s-2192,102,s,2192,Comprehensive Indian Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prevention and Treatment Act,Native Americans,1992-02-05,1992-02-05,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.,Senate,"Sen. Adams, Brock [D-WA]",WA,D,A000031,0,"Comprehensive Indian Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prevention and Treatment Act - Amends the Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Indian Health Service, to make grants to Indian tribes to establish Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE) programs.  Authorizes appropriations. Requires that 30 percent of the funds appropriated be used for urban Indian organizations funded under the Indian Health Care Improvement Act. Requires the Secretary, acting through the Indian Health Service, to assist Indian tribes in:  (1) the development, printing, and dissemination of education and prevention materials on FAS/FAE; and (2) the development and implementation of culturally sensitive assessment and diagnosis tools for use in tribal communities. Directs the Secretary to convene a FAS/FAE Task Force to:  (1) examine the needs of Indian communities and current Federal resources; and (2) develop an annual plan for prevention, intervention, treatment, and aftercare for those affected by FAS and FAE in Indian communities. Requires the Secretary to:  (1) make grants to tribes and urban Indian organizations for applied research projects proposed to elevate the understanding of methods to prevent, intervene, treat, or provide aftercare for persons affected by FAS or FAE; and (2) provide a national prevention and education clearinghouse for American Indian and Alaska Native women FAS activities.  Authorizes appropriations.  Provides that 50 percent of such appropriated funds shall be used for such projects. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the Congress on the status of FAS/FAE in the Indian population, along with recommendations on legislation needed to improve the prevention, intervention, treatment and aftercare of individuals affected by FAS/FAE in Indian communities.  Authorizes the Secretary to contract the production of this report to a national organization specifically addressing the FAS/FAE issue.  Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs to develop and implement models for training school teachers and administrators in identifying FAS and FAE in students, and in the special educational needs of them. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Indian Health Service, to develop and implement models for the treatment of alcohol and drug abuse by American Indian and Alaska Native women. Requires the Secretary, acting through the Indian Health Service, in administering the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, to ensure that alcoholism and substance abuse treatment resources are provided to Indian women proportionate to the number of Indians requiring such treatment.  Mandates that at least 40 percent of Indian Health Service treatment resources available under such Act be made available for Indian women.  Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Indian Health Service, to study the special educational, vocational, school-to-work transition and independent living needs of adolescents and adult Indians and Alaska Natives with FAS or FAE.  Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T15:17:05Z,
102-s-2194,102,s,2194,A bill to assure a priority to Indian lands in the location of certain facilities.,Native Americans,1992-02-05,1992-02-05,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.,Senate,"Sen. Burdick, Quentin N. [D-ND]",ND,D,B001077,1,"Directs the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior, and the Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, to give priority to locating facilities and projects on Indian lands in all matters involving the reorganization or development of service facilities, or in the establishment of related employment projects to address unemployment conditions in economically depressed areas.",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-hr-3958,102,hr,3958,Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians Act,Native Americans,1991-11-26,1992-07-08,Committee Hearings Held.,House,"Rep. Davis, Robert W. [R-MI-11]",MI,R,D000131,3,Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians Act - Extends Federal recognition and associated benefits to the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians (Tribes) of Michigan. Provides for the Tribes to be governed by current interim documents and officials until the Secretary of the Interior conducts elections to adopt a constitution and elect new tribal officials.,2025-08-26T15:15:46Z,
102-hr-4004,102,hr,4004,Tribal Courts Act of 1992,Native Americans,1991-11-26,1992-08-10,Message on Senate action sent to the House.,House,"Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]",CA,D,M000725,0,"Tribal Courts Act of 1992 - Declares that nothing in this Act shall:  (1) encroach upon or diminish in any way the inherent sovereign authority of Indian tribal governments to enact and enforce tribal laws or to appoint personnel; (2) imply that a tribal court is a U.S.  instrumentality; or (3) diminish the U.S. trust responsibility to tribal governments and their court systems. Title I:  Judicial Conference - Directs the Congress to recognize a nationally based Tribal Judicial Conference (Conference) organized by federally recognized tribal governments for:  (1) the administration of Conference funds and tribal court contracts and grants; and (2) the conduct of related activities including court studies, funding analysis, and budget and reporting submissions. Authorizes a nationally based Tribal Judicial Conference that is organized by federally recognized tribal governments to petition the Congress for such recognition. Directs the Administrative Office of the United States Courts to provide the Conference, upon request, with technical and other assistance on a reimbursable basis. Authorizes the Conference to establish committees and issue regulations. Directs the Conference to secure from tribal courts docket status and other related information. Directs the Conference to establish a formula for funding tribal courts and intertribal appellate courts. Sets forth formula factors.  Requires the Bureau of Indian Affairs to distribute these funds to tribal governments, which may provide additional assistance from other sources to tribal courts.  Authorizes tribal governments to appeal assistance determinations to the Board of Hearings and Appeals, U.S. Department of the Interior. Directs the Conference to provide grants (including competitive grants) to tribal governments, tribal consortiums, tribal courts, intertribal appellate courts, and national tribal judicial organizations for training, automation, code development, and recordkeeping. Authorizes appropriations. Title II:  Survey of Tribal Court Needs - Requires a Tribal Court Survey Team to conduct a comprehensive survey of tribal court funding needs within 180 days of congressional recognition of the Conference. Authorizes appropriations.  States that appropriations shall come from specified congressional committees' budget allocations. Title III:  Expedited Procedure for Resolution of Disapproval - Sets forth the congressional process for consideration of a resolution to disapprove a petitioning organization seeking recognition as the Tribal Judicial Conference. Title IV:  Study of Tribal/Federal Court Review - Requires a Tribal/Federal Court Review Study Panel to conduct a comprehensive study of the impact on Federal and tribal courts of Federal court review of final orders of tribal courts, including the circumstances under which Federal review of actions arising under the Indian Civil Rights Act may be appropriate.  Authorizes appropriations.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
102-hr-4026,102,hr,4026,Zuni River Watershed Act of 1992,Native Americans,1991-11-26,1992-08-11,Became Public Law No: 102-338.,House,"Rep. Richardson, Bill [D-NM-3]",NM,D,R000229,0,"Zuni River Watershed Act of 1992 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Soil Conservation Service and the Chief of the Forest Service, the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, and the Tribes (Zuni Tribe, Navajo Nation, and the Ramah Band of the Navajo Tribe) to conduct a study and prepare a plan for watershed protection and rehabilitation on both public and private lands within a specified portion of the Zuni River Watershed in New Mexico. Requires the Secretaries and the Tribes to submit a written report to specified congressional committees containing the full text and an executive summary of such study and plan. Authorizes appropriations.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
102-hr-4027,102,hr,4027,Indian Housing Demonstration Project Act of 1991,Native Americans,1991-11-26,1992-05-29,Committee Hearings Held.,House,"Rep. Richardson, Bill [D-NM-3]",NM,D,R000229,2,"Indian Housing Demonstration Project Act of 1991 - Directs the Secretaries of the Interior and of Housing and Urban Development (Secretaries) (HUD) to carry out a program to demonstrate the effectiveness of permitting Indian tribes (through the tribal government) to determine the housing needs of tribal members and the appropriate use of Federal housing assistance provided to the Indian tribe. Requires:  (1) the Secretaries, upon the selection of an Indian tribe for participation in such program, to permit the Indian tribal government to consolidate assistance received by the Tribe under specified programs for use under the demonstration program; and (2) the Secretary of HUD to authorize the Indian tribal government to receive any assistance under such programs that would be provided under the programs to the Indian housing authority of the Tribe. Directs the Secretary of HUD to transfer to each participating Indian tribe under the demonstration program, all rights, titles, and interests of the United States and any Indian housing authority of the Tribe, in any housing projects and housing units for Indian families on Indian reservations and other Indian areas of the tribe, subject to a reversion right agreement. Prohibits an Indian Tribe from being selected to participate in the demonstration program unless the Tribe has submitted a plan in compliance with this Act. Requires an Indian tribe participating in the demonstration program to receive annual contributions (to the extent amounts are provided in appropriations Acts) for each fiscal year beginning after the Indian tribe is selected to participate in the demonstration program in an amount equal to the amount of such assistance received by the Indian housing authority of the Tribe in the last fiscal year beginning before such Tribe was selected. Authorizes the Secretaries to waive provisions of any Federal law, regulations, policies, or procedures to enable the participating Indian tribe to implement its plan under this Act. Directs the Secretaries to establish procedures and deadlines for Indian tribes to submit applications for participation in the demonstration program. Requires the Secretaries to:  (1) select a minimum of five to a maximum of ten Indian tribes (which shall include the Jicarilla Apache tribe of New Mexico) to participate in such program; and (2) establish criteria for the selection process. Requires the Secretary of HUD to provide a grant to each participating Indian tribe for administrative expenses. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes an Indian tribe to terminate its participation in the program, after a five-year period, by notifying the Secretaries in writing of such termination.  Ceases any waiver provided for the Indian tribe under this Act, upon the termination.  Prohibits such termination from affecting an Indian tribe's eligibility for assistance or the amount of it provided by programs specified under this Act. Directs the Secretary of HUD to recapture any grant amounts received by the Indian tribe that remains unobligated upon the termination of such participation. Requires the Secretaries to:  (1) report to the Congress on the activities carried out under this Act by participating Indian tribes; and (2) evaluate the effectiveness of such activities.",2025-08-26T15:16:09Z,
102-s-2044,102,s,2044,Native American Languages Act of 1991,Native Americans,1991-11-25,1992-10-26,Became Public Law No: 102-524.,Senate,"Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]",HI,D,I000025,7,"Native American Languages Act of 1992 - Amends the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to eligible tribal governments and Native American organizations to assist Native Americans in assuring the survival and continuing vitality of their languages. Permits the use of grants for:  (1) community language programs; (2) training programs for teachers, interpreters, broadcasters, and translators; (3) production of teaching materials; (4) compilation of oral testimony; and (5) purchase of equipment. Requires grant applications to include:  (1) language status description; and (2) project description and objectives. Authorizes applicant organizations to form project partnerships with educational institutions. Provides that grants:  (1) may be awarded for up to three years; (2) shall cover up to 80 percent of project costs; and (3) shall be administered through the Administration for Native Americans. Directs the Secretary to appoint a panel of experts in Indian culture and languages to assist in reviewing grant applications. Amends the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to authorize FY 1993 through 1997 grant appropriations. Native Americans Educational Assistance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to enter into an agreement with the National Captioning Institute, Inc., to carry out a demonstration project to determine the effectiveness of captioned educational materials in Bureau of Indian Affairs' schools.  Directs the Secretary to submit a project report to the Congress within 12 months of enactment of this Act.  Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T15:17:51Z,
102-hr-3901,102,hr,3901,To establish certain requirements for the Secretary of the Interior to undertake environmental cleanup at the Phoenix Indian School property.,Native Americans,1991-11-23,1991-11-23,Referred to the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.,House,"Rep. Rhodes, John J., III [R-AZ-1]",AZ,R,R000189,0,"Directs the Secretary of the Interior to remove all buildings on a specified parcel of Bureau of Indian Affairs property in Phoenix, Arizona, (Phoenix Indian School), except for those buildings identified by the City to remain on such property. Requires the Secretary to undertake and complete, at the earliest possible date, asbestos removal activities in all buildings remaining on the property, and related infrastructure (including underground pipes). Extends the Secretary's obligation to carry out such activities beyond the date of transfer of such property from Federal ownership.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
102-s-2032,102,s,2032,ANCSA Land Transfer Equity Act of 1991,Native Americans,1991-11-23,1991-11-23,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.,Senate,"Sen. Murkowski, Frank H. [R-AK]",AK,R,M001085,0,"ANCSA Land Transfer Equity Act of 1991 - Amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) to require the Secretary of the Interior, within one year after notification by a Native Corporation of contaminants on certain transferred lands, to reach a settlement with such corporation to:  (1) remove all contaminants left by the United States, its agent, or a lessee, from such lands; or (2) replace such contaminated lands with contaminated-free lands of equal value. Declares that the United States:  (1) assume all past, present, and future liabilities and obligations arising from the original transfer of such contaminated lands; and (2) defend and hold harmless Native Corporations in all claims arising from the original transfer of them.",2025-08-26T15:17:02Z,
102-s-2034,102,s,2034,A bill to establish certain requirements for the Secretary of the Interior to undertake environmental cleanup at the Phoenix Indian School property.,Native Americans,1991-11-23,1992-01-03,Referred to the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.,Senate,"Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]",AZ,R,M000303,0,"Directs the Secretary of the Interior to remove, at the earliest possible date, all asbestos within buildings and related infrastructure, including underground pipes, on a specified parcel of Federal property in Phoenix, Arizona (Phoenix Indian School). Extends the Secretary's obligation to carry out such activities beyond the date of transfer of such property from Federal ownership.",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-hr-3897,102,hr,3897,Western Shoshone Claims Disbursement Act,Native Americans,1991-11-22,1992-04-30,Committee Hearings Held.,House,"Rep. Vucanovich, Barbara F. [R-NV-2]",NV,R,V000124,3,"Western Shoshone Claims Disbursement Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a judgment roll to apportion and distribute certain funds awarded to Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada on a per capita basis among a distributee, members of certain tribes, and their descendants. Sets forth procedures to establish the judgment roll and to distribute such funds. Exempts such funds from Federal, State, or local income tax. Prohibits:  (1) the funds from being considered as income or resources used as the basis for denying or reducing the financial assistance or benefits to any person or household participating in any Federal, State, or local program; (2) discrimination by a tribe or band against any distributee who participates in the distribution of the funds by denying such person or relative of such person any benefits or opportunity available from such tribe or band to other persons who do not participate; and (3) the receipt of such funds as construing a waiver of any existing treaty or State compact rights or as a sale of ancestral lands.  Declares that such funds are compensation for past damages. Prohibits executive order reservations set aside for the Western Shoshone Indians from being diminished by this Act and confirms them effective with their respective dates.",2025-08-26T15:17:47Z,
102-hr-3724,102,hr,3724,Indian Health Amendments of 1991,Native Americans,1991-11-06,1992-10-08,See S.2481.,House,"Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]",CA,D,M000725,7,"Indian Health Amendments of 1992 - Amends the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to state that it is the intent of the Congress that the Nation meet specified health status objectives with respect to Indians and urban Indians by the year 2000. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to report to the President, for transmission to the Congress, on the progress made in meeting each stated objective. Title I:  Indian Health Professionals - Directs the Secretary to make preparatory scholarship grants for:  (1) up to two years on a full-time basis (or the part-time equivalent) to Indians who have demonstrated the capability to successfully complete courses of study in the health professions; and (2) up to four years (or the part-time equivalent) for pregraduate education of any grantee leading to a baccalaureate degree in an approved course of study preparatory to such health professions. Prohibits the Secretary from denying scholarship assistance to an eligible applicant solely by reason of such applicant's eligibility for other Federal assistance. Authorizes the Secretary to grant health professions scholarships to Indians who are enrolled full or part-time in appropriately accredited schools and pursuing courses of study in the health professions. Makes an individual eligible for such scholarship in any year in which he or she is enrolled full or part-time in such course of study. Permits an Indian Health Scholarship recipient to meet active duty requirements through service on his or her reservation or to his or her tribe. Provides that the period for a part-time scholarship shall not exceed the part-time equivalent of four years. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Indian Health Service (Service), to establish a Placement Office to develop a national policy for the placement within the Service of health professionals required to meet the active duty obligation prescribed under the Public Health Service Act without regard to any competitive personnel system, agency personnel limitation, or Indian preference policy. Makes an individual liable to the United States for the amount paid to or on the individual's behalf under a written Indian health professions contract for specified breaches. Entitles the United States to recover an amount determined by a specified formula from any individual who fails to begin or complete such service obligations. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Service, to provide: (1) continuing education allowances to nurses employed by the Service; and (2) grants to establish and develop clinics operated by nurses, nurse midwives, or nurse practitioners to provide primary health care services to Indians.  Allocates funds for the training of nurse practitioners. Requires that as of FY 1993 at least 25 percent of annual retention bonuses be awarded to nurses. Requires the Secretary, acting through the Service, to establish a program to enable licensed practical nurses, licensed vocational nurses, and registered nurses working in an Indian health program for at least one year to pursue advanced training in a residency program. Revises the Indian Health Service Loan Repayment Program with respect to:  (1) eligibility and participation requirements; (2) extension of obligated service; (3) undergraduate loans; (4) repayment of loans; (5) tax liability reimbursements; and (6) the Secretary's annual report to the Congress. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Service, to assign one individual in each area office to be responsible on a full-time basis for recruitment activities. Requires the Secretary to provide a grant to a college or university to establish and maintain a program parallel to the Indians into Medicine Program (INMED) for the nursing and mental health professions. Establishes in the Treasury the Indian Health Scholarship and Loan Repayment Recovery Fund. Directs the Secretary, under authority of the Snyder Act, to:  (1) maintain a Community Health Aide Program in Alaska; and (2) provide, in a specified manner, a high standard of training to community health aides to ensure that they provide quality health care, health promotion, and disease prevention services to the villages served by the Program. Requires the Secretary, by contract or otherwise, to provide training for individuals in the administration and planning of tribal health programs. Authorizes appropriations. Title II:  Health Services - Authorizes the Secretary to expend appropriated funds under this Act to eliminate the deficiencies in health status and resources of all Indian tribes. Changes the threshold cost established by the Secretary:  (1) for FY 1992 to a minimum of $15,000 and a maximum of $25,000 (currently a minimum of $10,000 to a maximum of $20,000) before a service unit can be eligible for reimbursement from the Catastrophic Health Emergency Fund for the cost of treatment of an individual; and (2) for each succeeding year to the cost of the previous year increased by the percentage increase in the medical care expenditure category of the consumer price index for all urban consumers. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Service, to provide health promotion and disease prevention services to Indians to achieve the health objectives set forth in this Act. Repeals the requirement that the Secretary establish from one to four demonstration projects to discover the most effective and cost-efficient means of providing health promotion and disease prevention services to Indians. Directs the Secretary to continue to maintain specified model diabetes projects in existence through FY 2000. Authorizes the Secretary to establish new model diabetes projects. Prohibits the establishment of a greater number of them in one service area than in another until there is an equal number established with respect to all service areas. Adds to the duties of the diabetes control officer employed in each area office of the Service the task of evaluating the effectiveness of services provided through model diabetes projects established under this Act. Requires the Service to report annually to the President for transmission to the Congress on the mental health status of Indians. Requires any person employed as a psychologist, marriage and family therapist, or social worker providing clinical mental health care services to Indians to be licensed as such or working under the direct supervision of a licensed clinical psychologist, marriage and family therapist, or social worker. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Service, to provide grants for intermediate mental health services to Indian children and adolescents.  Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the: (1) feasibility and desirability of furnishing hospice care to terminally ill Indians; (2) the determination of the most efficient and effective means of furnishing such care; and (3) the feasibility of allowing an Indian tribe to purchase, directly or through the Service, managed care coverage under certain circumstances.  Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to establish a contract health services demonstration program for California Indians.  Provides for reimbursement of related costs for the California Rural Indian Health Board.  Establishes a program advisory board.  Terminates the program on September 30, 1997.  Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Service, to: (1) provide for screening mammography of Indian and urban Indian women 35 years or older; and (2) provide funds for certain patient travel costs (authorizing appropriations). Directs the Secretary to establish an epidemiology center in each service area. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Service, to award grants to:  (1) Indian tribes for comprehensive school health education programs; and (2) Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations for Indian youth programs.  Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to develop a comprehensive school health education program for Bureau schools.  Authorizes appropriations. Title III:  Health Facilities - Requires the Secretary, when evaluating for the Congress the likely impact of the closure of an Indian Health Service hospital or one of its outpatient health care facilities, to specify:  (1) the level of use of such hospital or facility by all eligible Indians; and (2) the distance between such hospital or facility and the nearest operating Service hospital. Authorizes:  (1) the Secretary to provide financial assistance to Indian tribes and communities for safe water and sanitary waste disposal facilities; and (2) the Secretary, acting through the Service, to provide grants to tribes and tribal organizations for construction and expansion of ambulatory care facilities. Revises the priority for grant and contract awards under the Indian health care delivery demonstration project. Authorizes appropriations.  Applies the requirements of the Buy American Act to all procurements with such funds.  Prohibits contracts with persons falsely labeling products as Made in America. Title IV:  Access to Health Services - Amends the Social Security Act to prohibit any payments received by a hospital or skilled nursing facility of the Service for services provided to Indians eligible for Medicare benefits from being considered in determining appropriations for health care and services to Indians. Declares that the Secretary has no authority to provide services to an Indian beneficiary with coverage under Medicare in preference to an Indian beneficiary without such coverage. Requires payments to any Service facility made under the Medicaid program to be placed in a special fund to be held by the Secretary and used, in a specified manner, exclusively for making any improvements in the facilities of such Service to achieve compliance with the applicable conditions and requirements of the Social Security Act. Prohibits payments received by such facility for services provided to Indians eligible for benefits under Medicaid from being considered determining appropriations for the provision of health care and services to Indians. Requires the Secretary to submit to the President, instead of the Congress, for submission with the budget, an accounting of the amount and use of funds reimbursed through Medicare and Medicaid made available to Indian Health Services. Authorizes appropriations. Title V:  Health Services for Urban Indians - Authorizes grants to urban Indian organizations for health care services.  (Currently the Secretary has contract authority only.) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to urban Indian organizations for alcohol and substance abuse related services. Authorizes appropriations. Title VI:  Organizational Improvements - Requires the Secretary to carry out, through the Director of the Service, all scholarship and loan functions under this Act. Authorizes appropriations. Title VII:  Substance Abuse Programs - Redesignates Title VII of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act as Title VIII. Expands the responsibilities of the Indian Health Service with respect to the Memorandum of Agreement entered into under the Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1986. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Service, to provide a program of comprehensive alcohol and substance abuse prevention and treatment to members of Indian tribes, including:  (1) programs for pregnant and post-partum women and their children; and (2) grants to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe for a model program. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Service, to enter into contracts with public or private providers of alcohol and substance abuse treatment services to assist the Service in carrying out such programs. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to tribes and tribal organizations for alcohol and substance abuse treatment of Indian women.  Authorizes appropriations.  Obligates 20 percent of appropriations for grants to urban Indian organizations. Directs the Secretary to:  (1) develop a program for acute detoxification and treatment for Indian youth who are alcohol and substance abusers; and (2) construct or renovate, and appropriately staff and operate, a youth regional treatment center in each area under the jurisdiction of an area office.  Considers the area offices of the Service in Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona, as one area office. Considers the one area office in California to be two area offices. Authorizes the Secretary to make funds available to the Tanana Chiefs Conference, Incorporated, to lease, construct, renovate, and operate a residential youth treatment facility in Fairbanks, Alaska. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Service, to:  (1) identify and use, where appropriate, federally-owned structures suitable as local residential or regional alcohol and substance abuse treatment centers for Indian youth; and (2) establish guidelines to determine their suitability for such purpose. Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary of the Interior, to develop within each Service unit community-based rehabilitation and follow-up services designed to integrate long-term treatment and to monitor and support Indian youth who are alcohol or substance abusers after their return home. Provides for the inclusion of family members in such treatment programs or other appropriate services.  Earmarks at least ten percent of funds appropriated to carry out such programs for outpatient care of adult family members related to the treatment of an Indian youth. Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on:  (1) the incidence and prevalence of the abuse of multiple forms of drugs, including alcohol, among Indian youth residing on Indian reservations and in urban areas; and (2) the interrelationship of such abuse with the incidence of mental illness among such youth. Requires the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary of the Interior, to develop within each service unit, a program to provide training and community education in the areas of alcohol and substance abuse, including the development of community-based training models. Requires the Secretary to make grants to the Navajo Nation to provide residential treatment for alcohol and substance abuse for the Tribe's adult and adolescent members and neighboring tribes. Directs the Navajo Nation to enter into a contract with a Gallup, New Mexico, area institution accredited by the Joint Commission of the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations to provide such comprehensive alcohol and drug treatment.  Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to tribes and tribal organizations for fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and fetal alcohol effect (FAE) programs.  Directs the Secretary to:  (1) establish an FAS/FAE Task Force; and (2) make grants through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to tribes, tribal organizations, and universities for applied FAS and FAE research projects.  Authorizes appropriations.  Obligates ten percent of appropriations for urban Indian organizations. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Service, to:  (1) make grants through FY 1995 to the 8 Northern Indian Pueblos Council, San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico, for substance abuse treatment services; and (2) make a grant to the Intertribal Addiction Recovery Organization, Inc. (Thunder Child Treatment Center), Sheridan, Wyoming, for the constriction of a substance abuse treatment center (authorizing appropriations). Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Service, to enter into contracts with, or make grants to, tribally controlled or other eligible community colleges for demonstration projects to develop educational curricula for substance abuse counseling. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1986 to:  (1) repeal current part 6 (Indian alcohol and substance abuse treatment and rehabilitation); (2) require Tribal Action Plans to be updated every two years; (3) extend authorization of appropriations for Tribal Action Plan technical assistance; (3) authorize grants and necessary appropriations for substance abuse education and prevention programs; (4) extend authorization of appropriations for a substance abuse newsletter; (5) extend authorization of appropriations for an Indian youth summer program; (6) extend authorization of appropriations for Indian youth emergency shelters and half-way houses; (7) authorize assistance to the Makah Indian Tribe of Washington for investigation and control of illegal narcotic traffic on the Makah Indian Reservation; (8) extend authorization of appropriations for similar narcotics investigation and control activities by the Tohono O'odham Tribe of Arizona and the St. Regis Band of Mohawk Indians of New York on their Reservations; (9) extend authorization of appropriations for the Department of the Interior's program of marijuana eradication and interdiction on Indian lands; (10) extend authorization of appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs' program of law enforcement and judicial training; and (11) extend authorization of appropriations for juvenile detention centers. Title VIII:  Miscellaneous - Directs the President to include with submission of the budget certain reports and statements on meeting the objectives of this Act. Extends to FY 2000 the time during which Arizona is designated as a contract health service delivery area. Continues through FY 1995 the demonstration programs involving treatment for child sexual abuse that were conducted in FY 1991 through the Hopi Tribe and the Asiniboine and Sioux Tribes of Fort Peck Reservation. Authorizes the Secretary and the Secretary of the Interior to establish such programs in any service area, except that the establishment of a greater number of them in one service area than in another is prohibited until there is an equal number established with respect to all service areas. Extends the deadline for:  (1) certain tribal health services management demonstration programs; and (2) an evaluation report by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Service, to enter into contracts with, or make grants to, tribes or tribal organizations for long-term care demonstration projects for disabled Indians.  Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Service, to enter into contracts with tribes or tribal organizations to establish up to six long-term care shared services demonstration projects. Directs the Secretary to provide for the dissemination to Indian tribes of the results of demonstration projects under this Act. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to authorize appropriations for the purpose of providing one-year planning and negotiations grants to certain tribes under the tribal self-governance project. Title IX:  Technical Corrections - Makes technical corrections to the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-sjres-222,102,sjres,222,"A joint resolution to designate 1992 as the ""Year of Reconciliation Between American Indians and non-Indians"".",Native Americans,1991-10-30,1992-05-09,Became Public Law No: 102-279.,Senate,"Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD]",SD,D,D000064,31,Designates 1992 as the Year of Reconciliation Between American Indians and Non-Indians.,2025-07-21T19:32:26Z,
102-s-1869,102,s,1869,San Carlos Indian Irrigation Project Divestiture Act of 1991,Native Americans,1991-10-24,1992-10-01,Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent.,Senate,"Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]",AZ,R,M000303,1,"San Carlos Indian Irrigation Project Divestiture Act of 1991 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to transfer U.S. interests in the electrical system of the San Carlos Irrigation Project (SCIP) in Arizona to:  (1) the Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) and the San Carlos Apache Tribe (SCAT) for the portions of the system on their reservations; and (2) the San Carlos Irrigation and Drainage District (SCIDD) for remaining portions. Directs the Secretary to negotiate an agreement with GRIC, SCAT, and SCIDD for the transfer of associated  assets and to distribute those assets in a manner that reflects the proportionate number of miles of distribution line to be transferred to GRIC, SCAT, and SCIDD.  Requires the Secretary to retain ownership of the electric generating facilities located in the power house and switchyard at Coolidge Dam. Directs the Secretary to establish the Environmental Protection Account, to be administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in consultation with GRIC and SCAT, to fund the disposal of hazardous waste materials associated  with the SCIP electrical system transferred to GRIC and SCAT and with those areas and components retained by the Secretary.  Makes the Secretary responsible for unfunded disposals. Directs the Secretary of Energy, upon the request of the Secretary of the Interior, to enter into agreements to reallocate SCIP's allocation of Federal power resources.  Directs the Secretary of Energy to treat GRIC, SCIDD, and SCAT as successors in interest to SCIP in reallocating SCIP's allocation of capacity and energy from the Parker Davis Project and the Colorado River Storage Project, including capacity and energy available pursuant to any agreement to provide preference power to SCIP prior to July 31, 1992. Assigns SCIP allocations of winter and summer capacity and energy to GRIC, SCIDD, and SCAT.  Requires the BIA to assign its contract with the Arizona Power Authority for capacity and energy from the Boulder Canyon Project accordingly. Directs the Secretary to enter into an agreement with GRIC and SCIDD to provide a long-term power supply to the irrigation wells and pumps installed by SCIP to provide water to SCIP lands on and off GRIC lands. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to allocate all SCIP funds to GRIC, SCIDD, and SCAT for specified uses.  Requires SCIP debt obligations owed by GRIC and SCIDD to the United States to be deposited in the Environmental Protection Account. Entitles any Federal employee at SCIP whose position is terminated by this Act to elect to continue receiving workers' compensation, retirement, and health and life insurance benefits for his or her period of employment with the tribal authority, provided such authority deposits employee deductions and agency contributions in the appropriate funds.  Directs the Secretary to establish and maintain a Departmental Priority Placement Program for SCIP employees who are involuntarily separated as a result of the divestiture of the SCIP electrical system.",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-hjres-358,102,hjres,358,"Designating 1992 as the ""Year of Reconciliation Between American Indians and Non-Indians"".",Native Americans,1991-10-22,1992-05-01,For Further Action See S.J.Res.222.,House,"Rep. Johnson, Tim [D-SD-At Large]",SD,D,J000177,221,Designates 1992 as the Year of Reconciliation Between American Indians and Non-Indians.,2024-02-06T20:04:02Z,
102-hr-3607,102,hr,3607,Jena Band of Choctaws of Louisiana Restoration Act,Native Americans,1991-10-22,1992-07-08,Committee Hearings Held.,House,"Rep. Huckaby, Thomas J. (Jerry) [D-LA-5]",LA,D,H000901,9,"Jena Band of Choctaws of Louisiana Restoration Act - Restores Federal recognition and associated services and benefits to the Jena Band of Choctaw of Louisiana. Directs that the Tribe be governed by an Interim Council until the Secretary of the Interior, upon the written request of the Council, conducts an election to adopt a constitution for the Tribe, and for the election of tribal officials.",2025-08-26T15:15:39Z,
102-sjres-217,102,sjres,217,"A joint resolution to authorize and request the President to proclaim 1992 as the ""Year of the American Indian"".",Native Americans,1991-10-22,1991-12-04,Became Public Law No: 102-188.,Senate,"Sen. Hatfield, Mark O. [R-OR]",OR,R,H000343,55,Designates 1992 as The Year of the American Indian.,2025-07-21T19:32:26Z,
102-hjres-342,102,hjres,342,"To authorize and request the President to proclaim the year 1992 as the ""Year of the American Indian"".",Native Americans,1991-10-03,1991-12-04,For Further Action See S.J.Res.217.,House,"Del. Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. [D-AS-At Large]",AS,D,F000010,227,Designates 1992 as The Year of the American Indian.,2024-02-06T20:04:02Z,
102-hr-3479,102,hr,3479,"To amend the Act entitled ""An Act to provide for the extension of certain Federal benefits, services, and assistance to the Pascua Yaqui Indians of Arizona, and for other purposes"".",Native Americans,1991-10-02,1991-10-02,Referred to the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.,House,"Rep. Rhodes, John J., III [R-AZ-1]",AZ,R,R000189,2,Extends:  (1) Federal recognition to the Pasqua Yaqui Indians of Arizona (the Tribe); and (2) the enrollment deadline for all U.S. citizens of Yaqui blood who apply for enrollment in the Tribe within three years after enactment of this Act.,2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
102-hr-3456,102,hr,3456,To amend title XV of the Higher Education Act.,Native Americans,1991-10-01,1991-10-24,Referred to the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education.,House,"Rep. Kildee, Dale E. [D-MI-7]",MI,D,K000172,1,"Amends the American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Culture and Art Development Act (the Act, which is title XV of the Education Amendments of 1986) to revise provisions relating to the Institute of American Indian Native Culture and Arts Development (the Institute) and its Board of Directors (the Board). Requires that Board members represent diverse fields of expertise, including finance, law, and education administration. Directs the President to carry out through the Board the publication of announcements of expiration of terms and the solicitation of nominations from Indian tribes and organizations to fill vacancies.  Authorizes the Board to:  (1) make recommendations based on nominations received; (2) make recommendations of its own; and (3) review and make comments on individuals being considered by the President for whom no nominations have been received. Grants the Board the power to recommend the continuation of Board members, in order to maintain stability and continuation, in accordance with specified procedures. Revises general powers of the Board.  Authorizes the Board to:  (1) enter into joint development ventures with public or private commercial or noncommercial entities for development of facilities to meet a specified required plan (provided that such ventures are related to and further the Institute's mission); and (2) designate annually a portion (up to ten percent) of specified appropriated funds for investment on a short-term basis to maximize yield and liquidity.  Requires that interest and earnings on specified amounts received and invested by the Institute be expended to carry out the Act. Revises provisions for basic compensation rates for Institute staff to require these to be set at rates comparable to those of similar institutions of higher education (or, as at present, at civil service rates for individuals with comparable qualifications). Revises Institute functions to eliminate certain requirements relating to a Center for Culture and Art Studies, Center for Research and Cultural Exchange, and Musuem of American Indian and Alaska Native Arts.  Makes the Board responsible for establishing the policies and administrative organization relating to the administrative control and monitoring responsibilities for all Institute subdivisions, administrative entities, and departments, with the specific responsibilities of each to lie solely within the discretion of the Board or its designee.  Requires the Board to establish, within the Institute, departments for the study of culture and arts and for research and exchange, and a museum.  Directs the Board to establish areas of competency for such departments. Authorizes the Institute to develop a policy or policies to extend preference to Indians in its program admissions and enrollment, employment, and contracts, fellowships, and grants.  (Currently authorizes the Institute to simply extend such preference.) Revises provisions relating to transfer of functions, including certain provisions for forgiveness of amounts owed and hold harmless provisions. Eliminates requirements for an annual report by the Institute President. Revises provisions relating to the Institute's headquarters to refer to the Board, rather than the Secretary of the Interior. Provides that the Institute shall not be subject to any requirement for non-Federal matching funds as a condition for Federal assistance. Revises provisions for the Institute's endowment program.  Allows the Institute to use funds from any non-Federal governmental source (as well as from any private or tribal source) to comply with a contribution requirement. Directs the Board to prepare a master plan on the short- and long-term facilities needs of the Institute, including specified types of evaluations, impact projections, periodic reviews, and needs prioritization.  Requires transmittal of such plan to the Congress within 18 months after enactment of this Act.",2025-07-21T19:44:15Z,
102-s-1773,102,s,1773,A bill to extend for a period of 31 days the legislative reinstatement of the power of Indian tribes to exercise criminal jurisdiction over Indians.,Native Americans,1991-09-30,1991-10-09,Became Public Law No: 102-124.,Senate,"Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]",HI,D,I000025,0,"Amends the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1991 to extend from September 30, 1991, through October 18, 1991, Indian tribal criminal misdemeanor jurisdiction over nonmember Indians.",2021-09-25T05:34:37Z,
102-hr-3430,102,hr,3430,To establish administrative procedures to extend Federal recognition to certain Indian groups.,Native Americans,1991-09-26,1992-09-15,Committee Hearings Held.,House,"Rep. Rhodes, John J., III [R-AZ-1]",AZ,R,R000189,0,"Authorizes any Indian group that is indigenous and ethnically and culturally identifiable to petition the Secretary of the Interior for recognition as an Indian tribe.  Requires a petition to contain:  (1) a statement of facts establishing that the petitioner has been identified as Indian or aboriginal and maintained tribal political influence over its members as an autonomous entity throughout history until the present (including the specific territory); (2) evidence that a substantial portion of the membership of the petitioner lives in a community viewed as Indian and distinct from other populations, is a descendant from an Indian group which historically inhabited a specific area, and is composed of persons who are not members of any other Indian tribe; (3) a copy of the present governing document or a statement describing membership criteria and the procedures governing affairs and members; and (4) a list of current and former members who have established descendency from historic Indian groups which combined and functioned as a single autonomous entity. Directs the Assistant Secretary  to:  (1) send an acknowledgement of receipt to the petitioner; and (2) publish a notice of receipt and a notice of opportunity for other parties to submit arguments in support of, or in opposition to, a petition.  Provides the petitioner with an opportunity to respond to such submissions prior to a determination on a petition by the Assistant Secretary. Sets forth review and appeal procedures.  Provides for expedited review for petitions submitted by Indian groups whose relationship with the Federal Government was terminated by statute.  Establishes a time limit for action by the Interior Department. Makes recognized Indian tribes eligible for Federal services and benefits that are available to other tribes. Directs the Secretary to publish in the Federal Register a current list of recognized Indian tribes receiving Bureau of Indian Affairs services within 90 days of this Act's enactment and annually thereafter. Directs the:  (1) Secretary to make available suggested format guidelines; and (2) Assistant Secretary to advise petitioners, upon request, on their historical background and Indian identity research. Authorizes the Commissioner of the Administration for Native Americans of the Department of Health and Human Services to award grants to enable Indian groups seeking Federal recognition to both conduct and prepare research and documentation necessary to substantiate and submit petitions under this Act. Authorizes appropriations for the fiscal year in which this Act is enacted and for the next 12 succeeding fiscal years.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
102-s-1752,102,s,1752,Indian Tribal Courts Act of 1991,Native Americans,1991-09-25,1992-08-06,Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent.,Senate,"Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]",HI,D,I000025,2,"Tribal Courts Act of 1992 - Declares that nothing in this Act shall:  (1) encroach upon or diminish in any way the inherent sovereign authority of Indian tribal governments to enact and enforce tribal laws or to appoint personnel; (2) imply that a tribal court is a U.S. instrumentality; or (3) diminish the U.S. trust responsibility to tribal governments and their court systems. Title I:  Judicial Conference - Directs the Congress to recognize a nationally based Tribal Judicial Conference (Conference) organized by federally recognized tribal governments for:  (1) the administration of Conference funds and tribal court contracts and grants; and (2) the conduct of related activities including court studies, funding analysis, and budget and reporting submissions. Authorizes a nationally based Tribal Judicial Conference that is organized by federally recognized tribal governments to petition the Congress for such recognition. Directs the Administrative Office of the United States Courts to provide the Conference, upon request, with technical and other assistance on a reimbursable basis. Authorizes the Conference to establish committees and issue regulations. Directs the Conference to secure from tribal courts docket status and other related information. Directs the Conference to establish a formula for funding tribal courts and intertribal appellate courts.  Sets forth formula factors. Requires the Bureau of Indian Affairs to distribute these funds to tribal governments, which may provide additional assistance from other sources to tribal courts.  Authorizes tribal governments to appeal assistance determinations to the Board of Hearings and Appeals, U.S. Department of the Interior. Directs the Conference to provide grants (including competitive grants) to tribal governments, tribal consortiums, tribal courts, intertribal appellate courts, and national tribal judicial organizations for training, automation, code development, and recordkeeping. Authorizes appropriations. Title II:  Survey of Tribal Court Needs - Requires a Tribal Court Survey Team to conduct a comprehensive survey of tribal court funding needs within 180 days of congressional recognition of the Conference. Authorizes appropriations.  States that appropriations shall come from specified congressional committees' budget allocations. Title III:  Expedited Procedure for Resolution of Disapproval - Sets forth the congressional process for consideration of a resolution to disapprove a petitioning organization seeking recognition as the Tribal Judicial Conference. Title IV:  Study of Tribal/Federal Court Review - Requires a Tribal/Federal Court Review Study Panel to conduct a comprehensive study of the impact on Federal and tribal courts of Federal court review of final orders of tribal courts, including the circumstances under which Federal review of actions arising under the Indian Civil Rights Act may be appropriate.  Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T15:14:55Z,
102-hr-3394,102,hr,3394,Tribal Self-Governance Demonstration Project Act,Native Americans,1991-09-24,1991-12-04,Became Public Law No: 102-184.,House,"Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]",CA,D,M000725,1,"Tribal Self-Governance Demonstration Project Act - Amends the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to extend the Tribal Self-Governance Demonstration Project from five to eight years. Increases the number of participating tribes in the project from 20 to 30. Directs the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to negotiate and enter into an annual written funding agreement with the governing body of a participating tribal government that successfully completes its Self-Governance Planning Grant. Authorizes appropriations for the ten tribes added to the Project by this Act. Authorizes such participating tribes to administer all programs, services, and functions of the Department of the Interior that are available to Indian tribes or Indians. Removes the statutory requirement that the Secretary approve attorney and other professional contracts of the participating Indian tribal governments operating under the Project. Directs the Secretary to interpret Federal laws and regulations in a manner that will facilitate the inclusion of activities, programs, services, and functions in the agreements authorized by this Act. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to study and report to the Congress on the feasibility of extending such Project to the activities, programs, functions, and services of the Indian Health Service. Authorizes the Secretary of HHS to establish within the Indian Health Service an office of self-governance to be responsible for coordinating the activities necessary to carry out such study. Authorizes the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the feasibility of including certain programs and activities in the Project that are currently excluded by Federal law.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
102-hr-3370,102,hr,3370,"To direct the Secretary of the Interior to carry out a study and make recommendations to the Congress regarding the feasibility of establishing a Native American cultural center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.",Native Americans,1991-09-23,1991-12-09,Became Public Law No: 102-196.,House,"Rep. English, Glenn [D-OK-6]",OK,D,E000184,0,"Directs the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the State of Oklahoma and Indian entities in Oklahoma, to carry out a study and report to the Congress regarding the establishment of a cultural center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to showcase the Native American heritage that is a significant part of Oklahoma history. Authorizes appropriations.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
102-s-1720,102,s,1720,Navajo-Hopi Relocation Housing Program Reauthorization Act of 1991,Native Americans,1991-09-17,1991-12-02,Became Public Law No: 102-180.,Senate,"Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]",HI,D,I000025,0,Navajo-Hopi Relocation Housing Program Reauthorization Act of 1991 - Amends Federal law to extend the authorization of appropriations for the Navajo-Hopi Relocation Housing Program from FY 1991 through 1995. Directs the Commissioner on Navajo and Hopi Relocation (Commissioner) serving at the end of a term to continue to serve until his or her successor has been confirmed. Requires that the Commissioner be compensated at the rate of basic pay payable for level IV of the Executive Schedule. Makes the powers of the Commissioner subject to the rules and regulations adopted by the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation (Office). Prohibits the Commissioner from appointing or fixing the compensation of his or her staff and personnel in excess of a GS-15 position. Provides that nothing in this Act shall cause any employee of the Office to be separated or reduced in grade or compensation for 12 months after the enactment of this Act. Places the positions of Executive Director of the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation and Deputy Executive Director of such Office in the Senior Executive Service. Considers any employee of such Office on the enactment of this Act to be a civil service employee as defined by Federal law.,2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-s-1717,102,s,1717,Native American Programs Act of 1974 Amendments Act,Native Americans,1991-09-16,1992-10-01,Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent.,Senate,"Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]",HI,D,I000025,8,"Native American Programs Act of 1974 Amendments Act - Amends the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to establish in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) the Administration for Native Americans (Administration) and in the Office of the Secretary of HHS (Secretary) the Intra-Departmental Council on Native American Affairs (Council). Requires the Commissioner of the Administration (Commissioner) to: (1) administer HHS financial assistance programs; (2) coordinate HHS activities affecting Native Americans; (3) serve as advocate for Native Americans within HHS; and (4) compile and disseminate pertinent information, especially for the Secretary's annual report. Requires the Council to:  (1) prepare a plan to allow tribal governments and other eligible Native American organizations to consolidate HHS grants; (2) designate a single office to oversee and audit such grants; and (3) recommend the plan to the Secretary. Makes Alaska Native organizations in urban or rural nonreservation areas as well as Indian organizations eligible for financial assistance. Makes the Office of Hawaiian Affairs of Hawaii (Office) the recipient of grants from the Secretary for a revolving loan fund for economic development in Hawaii.  Repeals the termination of such loan fund after a five-year demonstration period (thus making the fund permanent).  Requires the Office to provide matching non-Federal contributions to the fund for each grant.  Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 through 1994. Repeals provisions of the Native American Programs Act Amendments of 1987 that require the deposit of certain funds into the U.S. Treasury. Directs the Commissioner (in place of the Secretary) to provide: (1) technical assistance to potential and denied grant applicants; and (2) short-term training for persons carrying out funded projects. Authorizes an organization whose grant application is denied on grounds of ineligibility to file an administrative appeal. Authorizes the Commissioner to extend employment preference to Native Americans, based on the requirement that the Administration staff have knowledge of social and economic conditions characteristic of Native Americans. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1996, including appropriations for FY 1992 to continue the development of a detailed plan, together with contributory research demonstration projects, to establish a National Center for Native American Studies and Indian Policy Development.",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-s-1687,102,s,1687,Indian Tribal Government Waste Management Act of 1992,Native Americans,1991-08-02,1992-08-12,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 625.,Senate,"Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]",AZ,R,M000303,7,"Indian Tribal Government Waste Management Act of 1992 -  Title I: Tribal Waste Facilities - Declares that the Congress recognizes:  (1) the inherent authority of an Indian tribal government, subject to standards and criteria under this Act and the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA), to develop, construct, operate, close, maintain after closure, license, and regulate facilities for solid and other waste generated on Indian land; and (2) tribal rights to independently enforce such authority judicially or administratively. States that a tribal government is responsible for bringing tribal waste facilities into compliance with this Act or SWDA. Requires a tribal government to submit a tribal waste management plan to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (Administrator).  Stipulates that a tribal government may elect not to submit such plan in favor of the Administrator's undertaking tribal waste management activities.  Sets forth plan contents, including provision for noncomplying facilities and a prioritized listing of facilities requiring remedial action. Amends SWDA to prohibit a private suit under such Act against an Indian tribal government for a period of 24 months after enactment of this Act, and for an additional five years while a tribal government is carrying out a tribal waste management plan.  Stipulates that such prohibition shall not bar an action for:  (1) injunctive or other extraordinary relief to ensure compliance; or (2) a criminal prosecution. Directs the Administrator to:  (1) assist tribal governments in determining their responsibility for noncomplying tribal waste facilities; (2) promulgate development guidelines and approval criteria for tribal waste management plans; (3) report to the Congress regarding waste sites on Indian land; and (4) assist tribal governments in upgrading or closing noncomplying open dumps and sanitary landfills. Title II:  Commercial Waste Management Facilities - Authorizes a tribal government, subject to Administrator approval, to conduct hazardous waste and commercial solid waste programs. Authorizes a tribal government, subject to approval of the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) and recommendation by the Administrator, to enter into vendor contracts for waste facility development and management.  Sets forth criteria for the Secretary's review and approval of a vendor contract. Sets forth penalties for violations of this Act. Grants tribal governments concurrent civil jurisdiction to enforce tribal waste management regulations or vendor contracts.  Provides for deferral of Federal enforcement upon tribal request. Title III:  Miscellaneous Provisions - Directs the Administrator to provide tribal governments with solid and hazardous waste technical assistance. Authorizes the Administrator to provide grants to eligible tribal governments for:  (1) tribal waste management plan and waste facilities development and maintenance; and (2) enforcement. Makes it unlawful for a vendor to:  (1) make false statements or conceal facts; or (2) knowingly violate any provision of this Act. Establishes criminal penalties for such offenses. Makes unlawful and establishes criminal penalties for unauthorized disposal of waste on Indian land.  Authorizes a resident of Indian land or a tribal government to bring a civil action against an individual for unauthorized waste disposal. Authorizes permanent appropriations to carry out this Act.",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-hr-3139,102,hr,3139,Northern Cheyenne Indian Reserved Water Rights Settlement Act of 1991,Native Americans,1991-07-31,1992-09-22,See S.1607.,House,"Rep. Marlenee, Ron [R-MT-2]",MT,R,M000139,0,"Northern Cheyenne Indian Reserved Water Rights Settlement Act of 1991 - Ratifies the Water Rights Compact entered into on June 11, 1991, by the Northern Cheyenne Tribe (Tribe) and Montana. Directs the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to administer and enforce the Tribal water right until adoption and approval of a Tribal water code. Requires the Secretary, through the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to assist the Tribe under existing authority in developing specified acreage in the Tongue River basin and in the Rosebud Creek basin for agricultural purposes. Authorizes the Tribe or its authorized representatives, under specified conditions, and subject to the Secretary's approval, to enter into a service contract, lease, exchange, or other agreement providing for the delivery, use, or transfer of the water right confirmed to it in the Compact. Directs the Secretary to identify and develop features of the Tongue River Dam Project in Montana to provide for the enhancement of fish and wildlife habitats.  Authorizes appropriations for such enhancement. Directs the Secretary to establish a Tribal Development Fund for the Northern Cheyenne Tribe to be used for:  (1) land and natural resources administration, planning, and development within the Reservation; (2) land acquisition; and (3) a loan to Montana for the Tongue River Dam Project costs.  Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to provide certain funds to Montana for the modification of the Tongue River Dam. Specifies contributions to be made to such project by the Tribe (as an interest-free loan to Montana) and by the State. Authorizes appropriations for:  (1) the modification of the Tongue River Dam; (2) its annual operation, maintenance, and replacement costs; and (3) all environmental compliance associated with the Compact. States that it is the intent of the Congress that nothing in this Act shall:  (1) alter the trust responsibility of the United States to the Tribe; or (2) prohibit it from seeking additional authorization or appropriation of funds for Tribal programs and purposes. Directs the Secretary to allocate, subject to any prior reserved water rights, specified acre-feet per year of stored water in Big Horn Reservoir, Yellowtail Unit, Lower Bighorn Division, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, Montana, for use or disposition by the Tribe. Declares that the Tribe shall not be required to make payments to the United States for the portion of the tribal water right stored in Yellowtail Reservoir unless it uses or sells the water.  Specifies the schedule of such payments. Directs the Tribe to set rates for its use or sale of stored water, and to retain all revenues from such use or sale. Retains in the United States the right to use any and all water stored in the Big Horn Reservoir for hydropower generation. Requires the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the Tribe providing for:  (1) the Tribe's use or sale of water stored in the Big Horn Reservoir, under specified conditions; and (2) the collection and disposition of revenues in connection with water stored in it that is made available to the Tribe. Directs the Secretary to enter into a cooperative agreement with Montana for planning, design, and construction of the Tongue River Dam Project.  Retains ownership of such dam in Montana. Expresses the intent of the Congress that nothing in this Act shall subject to the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 any holders of State water contracts from the Tongue River Reservoir who do not have a contract for Federal reclamation storage. Directs the Bureau of Land Management to transfer specified Federal lands in Montana to the Bureau of Indian Affairs in trust for the Northern Cheyenne Tribe.  States that this transfer shall not be construed as creating a Federal reserve water right. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to pay to Montana, annually and on a nonreimbursable basis, an amount to cover the proportionate share of the annual operation, maintenance, and replacement costs for the Tongue River Reservoir Dam.  Declares that the United States waives its immunity from suit to the extent necessary to permit with specified exceptions: (1) the resolution by the Northern Cheyenne-Montana Compact Board of matters arising within its jurisdiction; and (2) the appeal or judicial enforcement of Compact Board decisions as provided in the Compact. Provides that nothing in this Act shall be construed to alter or amend any provision of the Yellowstone River Compact.",2025-08-26T15:15:06Z,
102-hr-3155,102,hr,3155,Northern Cheyenne Indian Reserved Water Rights Settlement Act of 1991,Native Americans,1991-07-31,1992-09-22,See S.1607.,House,"Rep. Williams, Pat [D-MT-1]",MT,D,W000520,0,"Northern Cheyenne Indian Reserved Water Rights Settlement Act of 1991 - Ratifies the Water Rights Compact entered into on June 11, 1991, by the Northern Cheyenne Tribe (Tribe) and Montana. Directs the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to administer and enforce the Tribal water right until adoption and approval of a Tribal water code. Requires the Secretary, through the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to assist the Tribe under existing authority in developing specified acreage in the Tongue River basin and in the Rosebud Creek basin for agricultural purposes. Authorizes the Tribe or its authorized representatives, under specified conditions, and subject to the Secretary's approval, to enter into a service contract, lease, exchange, or other agreement providing for the delivery, use, or transfer of the water right confirmed to it in the Compact. Directs the Secretary to identify and develop features of the Tongue River Dam Project in Montana to provide for the enhancement of fish and wildlife habitats.  Authorizes appropriations for such enhancement. Directs the Secretary to establish a Tribal Development Fund for the Northern Cheyenne Tribe to be used for:  (1) land and natural resources administration, planning, and development within the Reservation; (2) land acquisition; and (3) a loan to Montana for the Tongue River Dam Project costs.  Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to provide certain funds to Montana for the modification of the Tongue River Dam. Specifies contributions to be made to such project by the Tribe (as an interest-free loan to Montana) and by the State. Authorizes appropriations for:  (1) the modification of the Tongue River Dam; (2) its annual operation, maintenance, and replacement costs; and (3) all environmental compliance associated with the Compact. States that it is the intent of the Congress that nothing in this Act shall:  (1) alter the trust responsibility of the United States to the Tribe; or (2) prohibit it from seeking additional authorization or appropriation of funds for Tribal programs and purposes. Directs the Secretary to allocate, subject to any prior reserved water rights, specified acre-feet per year of stored water in Big Horn Reservoir, Yellowtail Unit, Lower Bighorn Division, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, Montana, for use or disposition by the Tribe. Declares that the Tribe shall not be required to make payments to the United States for the portion of the tribal water right stored in Yellowtail Reservoir unless it uses or sells the water.  Specifies the schedule of such payments. Directs the Tribe to set rates for its use or sale of stored water, and to retain all revenues from such use or sale. Retains in the United States the right to use any and all water stored in the Big Horn Reservoir for hydropower generation. Requires the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the Tribe providing for:  (1) the Tribe's use or sale of water stored in the Big Horn Reservoir, under specified conditions; and (2) the collection and disposition of revenues in connection with water stored in it that is made available to the Tribe. Directs the Secretary to enter into a cooperative agreement with Montana for planning, design, and construction of the Tongue River Dam Project.  Retains ownership of such dam in Montana. Expresses the intent of the Congress that nothing in this Act shall subject to the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 any holders of State water contracts from the Tongue River Reservoir who do not have a contract for Federal reclamation storage. Directs the Bureau of Land Management to transfer specified Federal lands in Montana to the Bureau of Indian Affairs in trust for the Northern Cheyenne Tribe.  States that this transfer shall not be construed as creating a Federal reserve water right. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to pay to Montana, annually and on a nonreimbursable basis, an amount to cover the proportionate share of the annual operation, maintenance, and replacement costs for the Tongue River Reservoir Dam.  Declares that the United States waives its immunity from suit to the extent necessary to permit with specified exceptions: (1) the resolution by the Northern Cheyenne-Montana Compact Board of matters arising within its jurisdiction; and (2) the appeal or judicial enforcement of Compact Board decisions as provided in the Compact. Provides that nothing in this Act shall be construed to alter or amend any provision of the Yellowstone River Compact.",2025-08-26T15:18:21Z,
102-s-1595,102,s,1595,Alaska Native Languages Preservation and Enhancement Act of 1991,Native Americans,1991-07-31,1992-06-29,Re-referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Murkowski, Frank H. [R-AK]",AK,R,M001085,0,"Alaska Native Languages Preservation and Enhancement Act of 1991 - Amends the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to direct the Secretary of the Interior to award grants, under specified conditions, to any Alaska Native Village, consortium of Alaska Native villages, regional corporation established by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, or urban Alaskan Native organization to:  (1) enhance, encourage, preserve, and facilitate the ability of Alaska Natives to speak their native languages; and (2) preserve and expand knowledge about such languages. Requires a grant application to include a plan to preserve the results of the project (such as tapes, textbooks, or transcripts) in a central location for the benefit of future generations of Alaska Natives and other interested persons. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 through 1996.",2025-07-21T19:44:15Z,
102-s-1602,102,s,1602,Fort Peck Indian Tribes-Montana Compact Act of 1992,Native Americans,1991-07-31,1992-08-10,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 617.,Senate,"Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]",MT,D,B000243,1,"Fort Peck Indian Tribes-Montana Compact Act of 1992 - Ratifies the Fort Peck Indian Tribes-Montana Compact that relates to the reserved water rights of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana. Authorizes the Tribe to enter into a joint venture, service contract, lease, exchange, agreement, or to modify such agreement to authorize:  (1) the delivery, use, or transfer of any part of the water rights confirmed in the Tribes by the Compact, for a maximum 50-year term inclusive of all renewal periods; or (2) the diversion or use of water within or outside the Reservation. Requires the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to approve or disapprove a water agreement by the later of:  (1) 180 days after submission to the Secretary; or (2) 60 days after any required compliance with Federal law. Provides for confidentiality of water agreement information regarding agreement terms and conditions or tribal financial benefits.",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-s-1607,102,s,1607,Northern Cheyenne Indian Reserved Water Rights Settlement Act of 1992,Native Americans,1991-07-31,1992-09-30,Became Public Law No: 102-374.,Senate,"Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT]",MT,R,B001126,2,"Northern Cheyenne Indian Reserved Water Rights Settlement Act of 1992 - Ratifies the Water Rights Compact entered into on June 11, 1991, by the Northern Cheyenne Tribe (Tribe) and Montana. Directs the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to administer and enforce the Tribal water right until adoption and approval of a Tribal water code. Authorizes the Tribe or its authorized representatives, under specified conditions and subject to the Secretary's approval, to enter into a service contract, lease, exchange, or other agreement providing for the delivery, use, or transfer of the water right confirmed to it in the Compact. Establishes in the Treasury the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reserved Water Rights Settlement Trust Fund (Fund).  Directs the Tribe to loan $11,500,000 from the Fund to Montana (subject to specified Project contributions by Montana) for the Tongue River Dam Project (Project). Authorizes appropriations for:  (1) tribal funds; and (2) the Project. States that it is the intent of the Congress that nothing in this Act shall:  (1) alter the trust responsibility of the United States to the Tribe; or (2) prohibit it from seeking additional authorization or appropriation of funds for Tribal programs and purposes. Directs the Secretary to identify and develop features of the Project that provide for the enhancement of fish and wildlife habitats. Authorizes Fund appropriations for:  (1) fish and wildlife enhancement; (2) environmental compliance; and (3) operations. Directs the Secretary to allocate, subject to any prior reserved water rights, specified acre-feet per year of stored water in Big Horn Reservoir, Yellowtail Unit, Lower Bighorn Division, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, Montana, for use or disposition by the Tribe. Declares that the Tribe shall not be required to make payments to the United States for the portion of the tribal water right stored in Yellowtail Reservoir unless it uses or sells the water.  Specifies the schedule of such payments. Directs the Tribe to set rates for its use or sale of stored water, and to retain all revenues from such use or sale. Retains in the United States the right to use any and all water stored in the Big Horn Reservoir for hydropower generation. Requires the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the Tribe providing for:  (1) the Tribe's use or sale of water stored in the Big Horn Reservoir, under specified conditions; and (2) the collection and disposition of revenues in connection with water stored in it that is made available to the Tribe. Establishes:  (1) a ten-year moratorium on tribal water marketing unless the Tribe and the Crow Tribe agree otherwise; and (2) limitations on water marketing by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to enter into a cooperative agreement with Montana for planning, design, and construction of the Tongue River Dam Project. Retains ownership of such dam in Montana. Expresses the intent of the Congress that nothing in this Act shall subject to the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 any holders of State water contracts from the Tongue River Reservoir who do not have a contract for Federal reclamation storage. Directs the Bureau of Land Management to transfer specified Federal lands in Montana to the Bureau of Indian Affairs in trust for the Tribe.  States that this transfer shall not be construed as creating a Federal reserve water right. Designates as lead agency:  (1) the Bureau of Reclamation with respect to the Tongue River Dam Project and uses of the Tribe's Big Horn Reservoir storage allocation; and (2) the Bureau of Indian Affairs with regard to environmental compliance. States that the Congress finds that the allocation of water resources to the Tribe under this Act is uniquely suited to the geographic, social, and economic characteristics of the situation, and shall not be construed as a precedent for other Indian water right claims.",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-s-1561,102,s,1561,A bill to declare that certain public domain lands are held in trust for the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon.,Native Americans,1991-07-25,1991-07-25,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.,Senate,"Sen. Hatfield, Mark O. [R-OR]",OR,R,H000343,0,"Directs the Secretary of the Interior to declare that all rights, title, and interest of the United States in surface and mineral estates of certain public domain lands other than National Forest lands, the lands of the Oregon and California Railroad, and Yaquina Head are held in trust by the United States as part of the reservation of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon (the Tribe). Authorizes the Tribe to manage, harvest, remove, sell, or otherwise alienate any timber, any interest in such, or any other surface or subsurface resources on any lands held by or in trust for it. Requires that the proceeds from the sale of timber on, or the sale of any other surface or subsurface resource of, such lands be paid to the Tribe.  Exempts such proceeds from Federal and State income taxes. Disallows their consideration as income or resources of Tribe members under the Social Security Act or any other federally assisted program. Requires certain payments to Lincoln County, Oregon, in lieu of taxes. Allows the Tribe to restrict public access to such lands. Requires the Tribe to offer at least 50 percent of the total annual sales volume of timber harvested from such lands for sale to U.S. firms that agree to use the timber purchased for production of wood products in the United States.",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-s-1530,102,s,1530,"Indian Employment, Training and Related Services Demonstration Act of 1992",Native Americans,1991-07-23,1992-10-23,Became Public Law No: 102-477.,Senate,"Sen. Simon, Paul [D-IL]",IL,D,S000423,12,"Indian Employment, Training and Related Services Demonstration Act of 1992 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary), in cooperation with the Secretary of Labor, Secretary of Health and Human Services, or Secretary of Education (Secretaries), to authorize a tribal government to consolidate federally-funded employment, training, and related services programs. Sets forth plan requirement and agency review provisions. Directs the Secretary to inform the tribal government of a plan's approval or disapproval within 90 days of its receipt.  Requires that the tribal government be given an opportunity to amend, or to petition the Secretary to reconsider, a disapproved plan. Authorizes the plan to involve expenditures for the creation of employment opportunities and for the development of the economic resources of the tribal government or of individual Indian people, under specified conditions. Authorizes the tribal government, under specified conditions, to use available funds to:  (1) place participants in training positions with private employers; and (2) pay such participants a training allowance or wage for a maximum 12-month period. Directs the Secretaries to enter into an interdepartmental memorandum of agreement providing for the implementation of demonstration projects under this Act.  Makes the Bureau of Indian Affairs the lead agency for such projects. Prohibits the enactment of this Act from reducing the amount of Federal funds available to a tribal government involved in any demonstration project. Authorizes the Secretaries to provide for an interagency transfer of available funds to a tribal government if needed. Directs the Secretary to submit to the appropriate congressional committees:  (1) a preliminary project report within two years of enactment of this Act; and (2) a final report within five years of enactment which shall include an identification of statutory barriers to program integration. Directs the Secretary to:  (1) develop, maintain, and publish at least biennially a gender-based report on the population eligible for the services which the Secretary provides to Indian people; and (2) report to specified congressional committees on the need for comprehensive, accurate, and periodically updated information on the size and characteristics of the American Indian and Alaska Native population throughout the entire United States. Makes any State with an economic development program targeted to Indian tribes eligible to receive, at no cost to the State, such Federal personnel assignments as the Secretary deems appropriate to help ensure the success of such program.",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-sjres-172,102,sjres,172,"A joint resolution to authorize and request the President to proclaim each of the months of November 1991 and 1992 as ""National American Indian Heritage Month"".",Native Americans,1991-06-27,1991-10-09,Became Public Law No: 102-123.,Senate,"Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]",HI,D,I000025,52,Designates November 1991 and November 1992 as National American Indian Heritage Month.,2025-07-21T19:32:26Z,
102-hr-2737,102,hr,2737,To provide that a portion of the income derived from trust or restricted land held by an individual Indian shall not be considered as a resource or income in determining eligibility for assistance under any Federal or federally assisted program.,Native Americans,1991-06-24,1992-09-14,"Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. H. Rept. 102-865, Part I.",House,"Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]",WA,D,M000404,5,"Provides that up to $4,000 per year in income (including interest) derived from trust or restricted lands held by individual Indians shall not be considered as income for purposes of determining eligibility for assistance under the Social Security Act or any other Federal or federally-assisted program. Amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to provide an identical exemption from consideration as income for up to $4,000 per year received by an Alaska Native as cash, dividends, or stock from a Native Corporation.",2024-02-07T16:32:33Z,
102-s-1350,102,s,1350,Zuni River Watershed Act of 1991,Native Americans,1991-06-21,1992-07-29,See H.R.4026.,Senate,"Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]",NM,D,B000468,1,"Zuni River Watershed Act of 1991 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Soil Conservation Service and the Chief of the Forest Service, and the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, the Zuni Indian Tribe, the Ramah Band of the Navajo Tribe of Indians, and the Navajo Nation, to study and prepare a plan for watershed protection and rehabilitation on both public and private lands within a specified portion of the Zuni River Watershed in New Mexico. Requires the Secretaries and the Tribes to submit a written report to specified congressional committees containing the full text and an executive summary of such study and plan. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-s-1315,102,s,1315,Indian Federal Recognition Administrative Procedures Act of 1991,Native Americans,1991-06-18,1991-10-22,Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 102-551.,Senate,"Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]",AZ,R,M000303,2,"Indian Federal Recognition Administrative Procedures Act of 1991 - Establishes the Commission on Indian Recognition to process petitions from Indian tribes for Federal recognition. Authorizes any Indian group that is indigenous to petition the Commission for such recognition. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to transfer to the Commission all petitions pending before the Department that request the Secretary or the Federal Government to recognize or acknowledge an Indian group as an Indian tribe.  Rescinds the authority of the Secretary and the Department to grant Federal recognition. Establishes guidelines for submitting such petitions. Directs the Commission to:  (1) send an acknowledgement of receipt to the petitioner; and (2) publish a notice of receipt and a notice of opportunity for other parties to submit arguments in support of, or in opposition to, a petition.  Provides the petitioner with an opportunity to respond to such submissions prior to a determination on a petition by the Commission. Sets forth review and appeal procedures.  Provides for expedited review for petitions submitted by Indian groups whose relationship with the Federal Government was terminated by law or that were parties to treaties. Makes recognized Indian tribes eligible for Federal services and benefits that are available to other tribes. Directs the Secretary to publish in the Federal Register a current list of recognized Indian tribes receiving Bureau of Indian Affairs services within days of this Act's enactment and annually thereafter. Authorizes any petitioner to bring an action in the U.S. district court for the district in which the petitioner resides, or the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, to enforce the provisions of this Act. Directs the Commission to make available petition format guidelines and to provide advice to petitioners for their historical background and Indian identity research. Authorizes the Commissioner of the Administration for Native Americans of the Department of Health and Human Services to award grants to enable Indian groups seeking Federal recognition to both conduct and prepare research and documentation necessary to substantiate submit petitions under this Act.",2025-08-26T15:13:35Z,
102-s-1287,102,s,1287,Tribal Self-Governance Demonstration Project Act,Native Americans,1991-06-13,1991-11-19,For Further Action See H.R.3394.,Senate,"Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]",AZ,R,M000303,1,"Tribal Self-Governance Demonstration Project Act - Amends the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to extend the Tribal Self-Governance Demonstration Project from five to eight years. Increases the number of participating tribes in the project from 20 to 30. Directs the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to negotiate and enter into an annual written funding agreement with the governing body of a participating tribal government that successfully completes its Self-Governance Planning Grant. Authorizes appropriations for the ten tribes added to the Project by this Act. Authorizes such participating tribes to administer all programs, services, and functions of the Department of the Interior that are otherwise available to Indian tribes or Indians. Authorizes the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the feasibility of including certain programs and activities in the Project that are currently excluded by Federal law. Removes the statutory requirement that the Secretary approve attorney and other professional contracts of the participating Indian tribal governments operating under the Project. Directs the Secretary to interpret Federal laws and regulations in a manner that will facilitate the inclusion of activities, programs, services, and functions in the agreements authorized by this Act. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study and report to the Congress on the feasibility of extending such Project to the activities, programs, functions, and services of the Indian Health Service.",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-s-1193,102,s,1193,Technical Amendments to Various Indian Laws Act of 1991,Native Americans,1991-05-24,1991-12-17,Became Public Law No: 102-238.,Senate,"Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]",HI,D,I000025,0,"Technical Amendments to Various Indian Laws Act of 1991 - Amends the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to extend the grace period for one year for the operation of any class II gaming (electronic or electromechanical facsimiles of any game of chance or slot machines) in Montana and Wisconsin, if the tribe with jurisdiction over the lands on which the gaming was operated requested the State government, by November 16, 1988, to negotiate a tribal-State compact. Requires such gaming on Indian land in Montana or Wisconsin to cease if the State's highest court decides it is illegal in that State. Authorizes appropriations for the National Indian Gaming Commission for FY 1992 through 1993. Amends the Indian Land Consolidation Act to authorize the Cherokee Nation to accept less than ten percent of the appraised market value in the sale of their lands used as homesites. Amends the Crow Allotment Act of 1920 to require that the leases for competent Crow Indian land contain proper conservation and land use provisions.  Requires the Secretary of the Interior to enforce such provisions. Amends the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (Secretary) (HUD) to provide assistance to Hawaii for use by the State in meeting responsibilities with which it has been charged under the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act (the Act).  Authorizes the Secretary to provide mortgage insurance covering any property on set-aside lands upon which there is or will be located a multifamily residence, for which the Department of the Hawaiian Home Lands (Department):  (1) is the mortgagor or co-mortgagor; (2) guarantees reimbursement to the Secretary for any mortgage insurance claim paid in connection with such property; or (3) offers other security acceptable to the Secretary. Authorizes the Department to sell a defaulted HUD insured mortgage on property or a housing unit to an eligible beneficiary.  Repeals certain provisions of the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act to conform with this Act. Makes funds appropriated in specified Acts for FY 1989 through 1991 for infrastructure development on Hawaiian Home Lands available for such purpose without any fiscal year limitation. Amends the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Water Rights Settlement Act of 1988 to extend the deadline for completing such settlement from December 31, 1991, to June 30, 1992.",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
102-hr-2414,102,hr,2414,Three Affiliated Tribes and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Equitable Compensation Act,Native Americans,1991-05-21,1992-10-08,See H.R.429.,House,"Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND-None]",ND,D,D000432,0,"Three Affiliated Tribes and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Equitable Compensation Act - Declares that:  (1) the Three Affiliated Tribes (TAT) (the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Tribes that reside on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation) are entitled to additional financial compensation from amounts deposited to a TAT Recovery Fund for the taking of reservation lands for the site of the Garrison Dam and Reservoir; and (2) the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (SRST) (members of the Great Sioux Nation that reside on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation) is entitled to additional financial compensation from amounts deposited to a SRST Economic Recovery Fund for the taking of reservation lands for the site for the Oahe Dam and Reservoir. Establishes such Funds.  Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to deposit into each Fund 25 percent of the receipts from deposits to the Treasury for the preceding fiscal year from the integrated programs of the Eastern Division of the Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin Project administered by the Western Area Power Administration, subject to certain limitations.  Authorizes appropriations to each Fund.  Makes available only the interest on the moneys in each Fund for use by the Secretary of the Interior in making payments to the SRST for use  for educational, social welfare, economic development, and other programs. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to appoint advisory councils to make recommendations regarding appropriate uses of such Funds. Specifies that:  (1) no payments pursuant to this Act shall result in the reduction or denial of any Federal services or programs to which the TAT or SRST, or any of their members, are otherwise entitled to because of their status as a federally recognized Indian tribe or member pursuant to Federal law; (2) no such payments shall be subject to Federal or State income tax, or affect power rates; and (3) no part of any moneys in either Fund shall be distributed to any TAT or SRST member on a per capita basis. Authorizes the Secretary to develop irrigation within the boundaries of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, subject to a finding by the Secretary of irrigability of the lands to receive water. Authorizes appropriations. Declares certain lands in North Dakota to be held in trust by the United States for the TAT as part of the Fort Berthold Reservation. Retains for the United States a flowage and sloughing easement over a specified portion of such lands for flood control and related Garrison Dam and Reservoir project purposes. Requires the Secretary of the Army to:  (1) sell certain lands and minerals underlying such lands, subject to the right of the United States to continuously or intermittently inundate such lands with water as necessary for the operation of dam and reservoir projects; and (2) give the right of first refusal to any applicant with respect to any land owned by such person immediately prior to its acquisition by the United States.  Requires that any such lands sold be conveyed subject to any lease in effect with respect to such lands at the time of such conveyance. Declares certain lands to be held in trust by the United States for the SRST as part of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Transfers:  (1) certain nontribal lands to those individuals from whom they were taken, or their assignees; and (2) certain lands acquired from the State of North Dakota to the State.",2025-08-26T15:17:19Z,
102-hr-2349,102,hr,2349,Mowa Band of Choctaw Indians Recognition Act,Native Americans,1991-05-15,1992-07-08,Committee Hearings Held.,House,"Rep. Callahan, Sonny [R-AL-1]",AL,R,C000052,1,"Mowa Band of Choctaw Indians Recognition Act - Extends Federal recognition and associated services and benefits to the Mowa Band of Choctaw Indians of Alabama.  Restores Federal rights and privileges abrogated by earlier statutes. Approves and ratifies the cession to the United States of all historical tribal lands of the Band. Regards such cession  as an extinguishment of all interests of the Band, if any, in such lands. Extinguishes all specified claims against the United States, a State or local government, or any other person or entity, by the Band arisinig subsequent to such cession, and based upon any interest in or right involving the land. Prohibits the Band from using its Federal recognition to assert any historical land claim. Provides that nothing in this Act alters any obligations:  (1) with respect to property; (2) under any contract; or (3) to pay a tax levied before its enactment. Transfers all interests in lands held by the Band to the United States to be held in trust for the benefit of the Band.  Requires the Band to transfer to the United States any interest in lands acquired after enactment of this Act.  Provides that such lands shall constitute the Band's reservation. Authorizes the Band to adopt a constitution that will take effect only after being filed with the Secretary of the Interior. Limits membership in the Band, until a constitution is adopted, to every individual who:  (1) is named in the tribal membership roll in effect on the enactment of this Act; or (2) is a descendant of any such individual.  Provides that membership will be determined according to the constitution after its adoption.",2025-08-26T15:17:35Z,
102-hr-2317,102,hr,2317,Indian Development Investment Zone Act of 1991,Native Americans,1991-05-14,1991-05-22,Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.,House,"Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND-None]",ND,D,D000432,0,"Indian Development Investment Zone Act of 1991 - Title I: Designation of Indian Development Investment Zones - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the designation of Indian enterprise zones by the Secretary of the Interior for purposes of providing tax relief and increasing the economic stake of tribal residents in their community and its development. Sets forth eligibility requirements and required tribal commitments for such designations. Requires the Secretary to prepare and submit to the Congress every four years a report on the effects of such Indian enterprise zones' designation. Requires that any tax reduction effected by a tribal commitment under the terms of this Act be disregarded for purposes of determining the eligibility of a tribe for Federal assistance or benefits. Title II:  Federal Income Tax Incentives - Subtitle A:  Credits for Employers - Allows employers located in Indian enterprise zones a nonrefundable income tax credit for qualified increased employment expenditures and for certain wages paid to economically disadvantaged individuals. Subtitle B:  Credits for Investment in Tangible Property in Indian Enterprise Zones - Allows businesses an additional investment tax credit for investment in certain tangible property located in Indian enterprise zones. Subtitle C:  Sense of the Congress with Respect to Tax Simplification - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of the Treasury should simplify the administration and enforcement of amendments made by this Act. Title III:  Establishment of Foreign-Trade Zones in Indian Enterprise Zones - Requires the Foreign Trade Zone Board to consider on a priority basis and to expedite the processing of applications for the establishment of foreign-trade zones within Indian enterprise zones.  Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to give priority to, and expedite the processing of, applications for the establishment of foreign-trade zones within Indian enterprise zones.  Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to give priority to, and expedite applications for, the establishment of ports of entry necessary to establish such zones. Title IV:  Conflict Resolution in Indian Enterprise Zones - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to approve plans, pursuant to a tribal economic development plan, that include provisions for conflict resolution between enterprise zone parties.  Requires that such plans not encumber the trust assets of the tribe. Title V:  Amendment to Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act - Amends the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to permit contractors of a Federal agency additional compensation equal to five percent of certain payments made to a subcontractor or supplier that is an Indian organization or Indian-owned economic enterprise.",2025-08-26T15:14:23Z,
102-hr-2319,102,hr,2319,"To extend the authorization of appropriations for programs under the Native American Programs Act of 1974, and for other purposes.",Native Americans,1991-05-14,1991-06-17,Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.,House,"Rep. Goodling, William F. [R-PA-19]",PA,R,G000291,0,"Amends the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to authorize appropriations for FY 1992 through 1994. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to reserve $500,000 to provide financial assistance to other Native American Pacific Islanders (including American Samoan Natives), in any fiscal year for which the amount appropriated under this Act exceeds 105 percent of the amount appropriated for FY 1987.",2025-07-21T19:44:15Z,