North Dakota swaps school lands for government lands near tribes.
H.R. 2252 — North Dakota Trust Lands Completion Act of 2025 · Filed by Julie Fedorchak (R-ND) · Introduced Mar 21, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
North Dakota can trade state school and university lands near Indian reservations. The state gives up parcels inside reservation boundaries. The government gives the state government land of roughly equal value elsewhere in the state. Tribes can ask for the given-up parcels to be held by the government for the tribe.
Who it affects
North Dakota's school and university trust funds benefit from consolidating lands outside reservations. Tribes can gain land if they request it. Grazing permittees and mineral leaseholders may keep their permits and leases.
One thing to notice
Tribes must ask for given-up parcels to be held for them. If they do not ask, the land stays under government management instead of becoming tribal land. The state can choose which parcels to give up, so it may keep more valuable land.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Mar 21, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Mar 21, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Natural Resources and Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources”
- Mar 5, 2026 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Mar 5, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Unanimous Consent”
- May 19, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3567-3569)”
- May 19, 2026 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended”
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How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (15,156 characters) on Jul 25, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,358 analysed bills.
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