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Leech Lake Reservation Restoration Amendments Act of 2025

Introduced: February 18, 2025 Introduced by: Smith, Tina Democratic · Minnesota See on congress.gov
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Dec 11, 2025
Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8687-8688; text: CR S8688)
Dec 11, 2025
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
Oct 14, 2025
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 187.
Oct 14, 2025
Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Murkowski without amendment. With written report No. 119-78.
Mar 5, 2025
Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Feb 18, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
Feb 18, 2025
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Leech Lake Reservation Restoration Amendments Act of 2025

This bill transfers certain federal land located in the Chippewa National Forest in Cass County, Minnesota, to the Department of the Interior for the benefit of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe.

Specifically, the bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to transfer for the benefit of the tribe land in the Chippewa National Forest that records maintained by the Bureau of Indian Affairs show was sold without the unanimous consent of the rightful landowners.

Upon agreement between USDA and the tribe, USDA shall substitute alternative National Forest System land located in Cass County, Minnesota, on an acre-for-acre basis for those parcels of federal land to be transferred in a manner that avoids inholdings and provides a preference for land adjacent to or near existing Leech Lake trust lands and lands of cultural importance to the tribe, to the maximum extent practicable.

USDA may transfer land to Interior on a rolling basis as that land is identified and surveys are completed.

USDA, acting through the U.S. Forest Service, must provide for public engagement and comment to implement this bill.

What's happening now December 15, 2025

Held at the desk.

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