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US Congress · H.R. 41 · Passed the House

Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act

Introduced
Moved
Reached a final decision
Introduced 2025-01-03
Derived from the official record below.

Officially: “Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act Read the full text

Native Americans

What it does

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 subsurfac
Summary by the Congressional Research Service, from the official record. Plain-language AI rewrite coming. Not legal advice.

Where it is

Introduced · 2025-01-03

In the House.

Passed the House · 2026-06-02
Senate floor vote · next · the next step

Official documents

The on-site text is shown verbatim from the GovInfo publication, captured 2026-07-23. The same version at GovInfo.

The numbers

29%
of bills that passed one chamber became law in the 118th Congress, 2023 to 2024 (n=939)
2
sponsors, out of 218 needed to pass

Who is lobbying on this

SEALASKA CORPORATIONvia VAN NESS FELDMAN, LLP
6 filings
DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFEvia DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE
2 filings
From 8 filings in federal lobbying disclosures (LDA), via lda.gov, naming this bill (2025 to 2026). Filings are self-reported by lobbying firms and show who is paid to influence this bill. They do not say which side, or whether it worked.
Every fact on this page links to its source, starting with the official bill record. Last action: Received in the Senate. (2026-06-03).