HR 2389
Quinault Indian Nation Land Transfer Act
Summary
Quinault Indian Nation Land Transfer Act This bill administratively transfers approximately 72 acres of specified lands in Washington from the U.S. Forest Service to the Department of the Interior. Interior must take this land into trust for the benefit of the Quinault Indian Nation. Land taken into trust shall be part of the tribe's reservation. The bill prohibits gaming on the land taken into trust. The bill requires Interior, for purposes of taking the land into trust, to meet the disclosure requirements for hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants, without otherwise being required to remediate or abate those hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants.
Bill status
- Status
- Passed House
- Sponsor
- Rep. Emily Randall [D-WA-6]
- Cosponsors
- 0
- Policy area
- Native Americans
- Introduced
- 2025-03-26
- Latest action
- 2026-06-03: Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held.
Committee referrals
- Indian Affairs Committee: Senate · Hearings By (full committee) · 2026-06-03
- Indian Affairs Committee: Senate · Referred To · 2025-12-10
- Natural Resources Committee: House · Reported By · 2025-09-15
- Natural Resources Committee: House · Markup By · 2025-06-25
- Natural Resources Committee: House · Discharged from · 2025-06-25
Recent actions
- 2026-06-03: Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held.
- 2025-12-10: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
- 2025-12-09: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 2025-12-09: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5081)
- 2025-12-09: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5081)