Federal land given to California tribe after many years
H.R. 2302 — Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025 · Filed by Tom McClintock (R-CA) · Introduced Mar 24, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This bill gives about 265 acres of federal land to the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians. The land will be held in trust by the Department of Interior. It becomes part of the tribe's reservation. The tribe cannot use the land for gambling. The Department of Interior has 180 days to complete the transfer.
Who it affects
The Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians gets the land back. The tribe can use it for other economic purposes. Counties in the area may lose tax money from the land.
One thing to notice
The tribe cannot use this land for gambling. Gaming is a major money source for many tribes.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Mar 24, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Mar 24, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Natural Resources and Senate Committee on Indian Affairs · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources”
- Apr 30, 2025 — Hearing held · Congress.gov: “Subcommittee Hearings Held”
- Jul 23, 2025 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Jul 23, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent”
- Dec 9, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5071)”
- Dec 9, 2025 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 2 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $120,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 2 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Tom McClintock, who sponsored the bill, received $169,876 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Shingle Springs Rancheria — $120,000 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- trust — Land held and managed by the federal government for a tribe's benefit
- reservation — Land set aside by the government for a Native American tribe
- Department of Interior — The federal agency that manages public lands and Native American affairs
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (2,854 characters) on Aug 20, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,778 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 21, 2026 · page rendered 2026-11-02.
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