S. 3219 119th Congress Senate

Albuquerque Indian School Act of 2026

Official title: A bill to transfer certain Federal land into trust for certain Indian Pueblos in the State of New Mexico, and for other purposes.

Introduced: November 19, 2025 Introduced by: Martin Heinrich Democratic · New Mexico See on congress.gov

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Everywhere this bill has been 12 steps

Introduced

In committee

Reported out

Passed House

Passed Senate

To President

Became law

Oct 5, 2026

Held at the desk.

Oct 5, 2026

Received in the House.

Sep 29, 2026

Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.

Sep 29, 2026

Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.

Sep 29, 2026

Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5145-5146; text: CR S5145-5146)

Sep 29, 2026

Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5145-5146; text: CR S5145-5146)

Sep 23, 2026

Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 682.

Sep 23, 2026

Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Murkowski with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 119-153.

Aug 5, 2026

Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.

Jun 3, 2026

Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held.

Nov 19, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

Nov 19, 2025

Introduced in Senate

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Held at the desk.

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Albuquerque Indian School Act of 2025

This bill takes three tracts of specified federal land (approximately 9.89 acres) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, into trust for the benefit of the 19 Pueblos of New Mexico. (These three tracts of land were historically part of the Albuquerque Indian School, which was an Indian boarding school until 1981.)

The land is currently administered by the General Services Administration (GSA). Within 90 days of this bill's enactment and the relocation of all federal tenants, the bill requires (1) the GSA to transfer administrative jurisdiction over the land to the Department of the Interior, and (2) Interior to take the land into trust for the benefit of the 19 Pueblos.

The land taken into trust must be subject to a right-of-way easement, as determined by the GSA, on the federal land located within Tract 1 for purposes of retrieving or relocating federal property from the land to another location. (Tract 1, which is approximately 3.57 acres, contains a warehouse that is 76,682 square feet.)

The bill requires the land taken into trust to be used for the educational, health, cultural, business, and economic development of the 19 Pueblos. Further, the land must remain subject to existing private and municipal encumbrances, rights-of-way, restrictions, easements of record, and utility service agreements.

The bill prohibits gaming on the land taken into trust.

Hearings & markups 2

Business meeting to consider S.239, to take certain mineral interests into trust for the benefit of the Crow Tribe of M…
Open Business Meeting Aug 5, 2026 · 2:00 PM EDT · Indian Affairs Committee
Hearings to examine S.630, to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to make payments to the Quapaw Nation and certain…
Open Hearing Jun 3, 2026 · 2:00 PM EDT · Indian Affairs Committee

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Committees of jurisdiction 1

Indian Affairs Committee
Senate

Cosponsors 1

Luján, Ben Ray

New Mexico · Nov 19, 2025

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3219: Albuquerque Indian School Act of 2026. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-3219/

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