Federal land in California returned to Pit River Tribe
H.R. 2400 — Pit River Land Transfer Act of 2025 · Filed by Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) · Introduced Mar 27, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This bill gives about 584 acres of federal forest land to the Pit River Tribe. The land becomes part of the tribe's reservation. It is held in federal trust. The tribe cannot use it for gambling.
Who it affects
The Pit River Tribe gets the land back. The tribe's government and members can use it for their own benefit.
One thing to notice
The land must be surveyed within 180 days. This delay could slow the tribe's use of the land.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Mar 27, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Mar 27, 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 15, 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 H5886-5887)”
- Dec 15, 2025 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Stauber 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 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $10,000 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.
Doug LaMalfa, who sponsored the bill, received $279,010 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Pit River Tribe — $10,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- federal trust — The federal government holds and manages land for a tribe's benefit.
- reservation — Land set aside by the federal government for a Native American tribe.
- gambling — Games where people bet money or things of value.
- 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 (2,042 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 14,342 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 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-18.
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