Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act
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Under committee review
What it doesSummary introduced in senate (Jul 30, 2025)
Alaska Native Landless Equity 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 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.
The bill also allows each urban corporation to establish a settlement trust to (1) promote the health, education, and welfare of the trust beneficiaries; and (2) preserve the Alaska Native heritage and culture of their communities.
What just happenedSep 17, 2026
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 639.
Who’s behind it
- Reported to SenateSep 17, 2026
- Introduced in SenateJul 30, 2025
- Sep 17, 2026Calendars
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 639.
- Sep 17, 2026Committee
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Lee with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
- Sep 17, 2026Committee14000
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Lee with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
- Jul 16, 2026Committee
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Energy and Natural Resources Committee - Feb 12, 2026Committee
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held.
Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee - Jul 30, 2025IntroReferral
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Energy and Natural Resources Committee - Jul 30, 2025IntroReferral10000
Introduced in Senate