HR 41 · Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act
Received in the Senate.
- Introduced
- Jan 3, 2025
- Latest action
- Jun 3, 2026
- Sponsor
- Rep. Nicholas Begich [R-AK-At Large]
- Policy area
- Native Americans
- Cosponsors
- 1
Summary
Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act This bill allows five Alaska Native communities in Southeast Alaska to form urban corporations and receive land entitlements. Specifically, the bill allows the Alaska Native residents of each of the Alaska Native villages of Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell, Alaska, to organize as Alaska Native urban corporations and to receive certain settlement land. The bill directs the Department of the Interior to convey specified land to each urban corporation. Further, Interior must convey the subsurface estate for that land to the regional corporation for Southeast Alaska. The land conveyed to each urban corporation must include any U.S. interest in all roads, trails, log transfer facilities, leases, and appurtenances on or related to the land conveyed to the urban corporation. The bill also allows each urban corporation to establish a settlement trust to (1) promote the health, education, and welfare of the trust beneficiaries; and (2) preserve the Alaska Native heritage and culture of their communities.
Recent actions
- Apr 2, 2026 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 499.
- Apr 2, 2026 Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-579.
- Apr 2, 2026 Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-579.
- Mar 5, 2026 Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
- Mar 5, 2026 Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Jan 3, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
- Jan 3, 2025 Introduced in House
- Jan 3, 2025 Introduced in House
Votes
No recorded votes are available for this bill.