S. 630 119th Congress Senate

Quapaw Tribal Settlement Act of 2025

Official title: A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to make payments to the Quapaw Nation and certain members of the Quapaw Nation in accordance with the recomme… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to make payments to the Quapaw Nation and certain members of the Quapaw Nation in accordance with the recommendation of the United States Court of Federal Claims, and for other purposes.

Introduced: February 19, 2025 See on congress.gov

Native Americans Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitrationFederal-Indian relationsGovernment trust fundsIndian claims

Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps

Introduced

In committee

Reported out

Passed House

Passed Senate

To President

Became law

Jun 3, 2026

Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held.

Feb 19, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

Feb 19, 2025

Introduced in Senate

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What's happening now June 3, 2026

Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held.

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Quapaw Tribal Settlement Act of 2025

This bill creates a trust account, funds the account, and establishes a distribution process to settle certain claims between the federal government and the Quapaw Nation (a tribe in Oklahoma).

Specifically, the bill establishes the Quapaw Bear Settlement Trust Account and directs the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Trust Funds Administration to administer all funds appropriated to the trust account.

Interior must make payments to the tribe and individual members of the tribe in accordance with the January 2020 recommendation of the review panel of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

The bill outlines the distribution process for the settlement funds in the trust account.

Hearings & markups 1

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

Related & companion bills 1

Bill text 1 version

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Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

Committees of jurisdiction 1

Indian Affairs Committee
Senate

Cosponsors 2

Armstrong, Alan

Oklahoma · May 19, 2026

Lankford, James

Oklahoma · Feb 19, 2025

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 630: Quapaw Tribal Settlement Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-630/

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