HR 43
Became law
Removes the requirement that Alaska Native village corporations convey more land in trust to the State of Alaska for future municipal governments, and lets land already placed in such a trust return to the village corporation when no municipal corporation has been formed.
Official title: Alaska Native Village Municipal Lands Restoration Act of 2025
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
03-JAN-2025
Referred
03-JAN-2025
Passed
04-FEB-2025
Senate
Received
05-FEB-2025
Passed
18-JUN-2025
President
Presented
03-JUL-2025
Signed
07-JUL-2025
Became law
07-JUL-2025
- Bars Village Corporations from being required to convey additional land in trust to the State of Alaska for the establishment of Municipal Corporations.
- Dissolves a trust and returns its land to the Village Corporation when land was conveyed in trust before enactment, no Municipal Corporation has been established, and the Village Corporation and the Native village's residents formally request dissolution.
- Keeps valid existing rights, existing easements, and rights-of-way needed for public road access or access by holders of valid existing rights on returned land.
- Requires the Village Corporation to assume the trust's obligations under any lease or other use agreement on returned land.
Current. The Congressional Research Service's summary covers the bill's latest wording (Public Law, 07-JUL-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Natural Resources Committee (House)
Native Americans
No cosponsors.