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
Official documents
Full bill textread it on this site, version eh (Engrossed in House), as published by GovInfo
officialCongressional Budget Office cost estimatewhat it would cost, by the nonpartisan CBO
officialThe 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 filingsDEFENDERS OF WILDLIFEvia DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE
2 filingsFrom 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).