US Congress · H.R. 4463 · Passed the House

To amend the Catawba Indian Tribe of South Carolina Land Claims Settlement Act of 1993.

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Introduced 2025-07-16

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Officially: “To amend the Catawba Indian Tribe of South Carolina Land Claims Settlement Act of 1993.” Read the full text

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What it does

This bill revises tribal membership requirements for the Catawba Indian Nation (a tribe in South Carolina). The Catawba Indian Tribe of South Carolina Land Claims Settlement Act of 1993 explicitly restricted the tribe’s future membership to lineal descendants of people on the final base membership roll who maintained continuous political relations with the tribe. This bill removes these membership criteria and allows the tribe to determine its membership. (The tribe uses three base membership rolls and anyone who wants to be enrolled must prove lineal descent from someone listed on one of thes

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1Future membership of the Catawba Indian Tribe of South Carolina

This section would amend subsection (d) of section 7 of the Catawba Indian Tribe of South Carolina Land Claims Settlement Act of 1993 (Public Law 103-116) by striking out a specific requirement in that subsection. The requirement being removed said that no individual could be enrolled as a tribal member unless the individual was a lineal descendant of a person on the final base membership roll and had continued to maintain political relations with the Tribe. By striking this requirement, this section would remove both of those conditions as a bar to future tribal membership enrollment under that subsection.

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1. Future membership of the Catawba Indian Tribe of South Carolina Subsection (d) of section 7 of the Catawba Indian Tribe of South Carolina Land Claims Settlement Act of 1993 ( Public Law 103–116 ), is amended by striking ; however, in no event may an individual be enrolled as a tribal member unless the individual is a lineal descendant of a person on the final base membership roll and has continued to maintain political relations with the Tribe .

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Where it is

Introduced · 2025-07-16

In the House.

Committee hearing · 2025-09-09

Passed the House · 2026-06-02

Senate floor vote · next · the next step

Official documents

Full bill textread it on this site, version rfs (Referred in Senate), as published by GovInfo

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Congressional Budget Office cost estimatewhat it would cost, by the nonpartisan CBO

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The numbers

29%

of bills that passed one chamber became law in the 118th Congress, 2023 to 2024 (n=939)

sponsors, out of 218 needed to pass

Every fact on this page links to its source, starting with the official bill record. Last action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (2026-06-03).