Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act
Introduced Jan 3, 2025 by Rep. Nicholas J. Begich
The House passed it. The Senate has to pass it before it can reach the President.
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.
Read the full summary on Congress.govSummary by the Congressional Research Service.
No recorded roll-call vote on this bill — it may have passed by voice vote or unanimous consent, which don't record individual votes.
- Jun 3, 2026Received in the Senate.
- Jun 2, 2026Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Jun 2, 2026On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3746-3749)
- Jun 2, 2026Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3746-3749)
- Jun 2, 2026DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 41.
- Jun 2, 2026Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3746-3749)
- Jun 2, 2026Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Apr 2, 2026Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 499.
- Apr 2, 2026Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-579.
- Mar 5, 2026Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
- Mar 5, 2026Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Jan 3, 2025Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
- Jan 3, 2025Introduced in House