Alaska Native village gets land after 54 years of waiting
H.R. 2815 — Cape Fox Land Entitlement Finalization Act of 2025 · Filed by Nicholas Begich (R-AK) · Introduced Apr 10, 2025 · Signed
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What it does
The bill lets Cape Fox Village Corporation pick about 180 acres of federal land. They pick from the Tongass National Forest instead of land near home. This finishes a land deal that started long ago. Sealaska Corporation gets rights to minerals under the land. The bill keeps a public path across the land.
Who it affects
Cape Fox Village Corporation and Sealaska Corporation get land rights they were promised. People who hunt, fish, or camp keep the right to cross.
One thing to notice
Cape Fox gets the surface and Sealaska gets what is under it. The bill does not say how long the public path lasts.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Apr 10, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Apr 10, 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”
- May 20, 2025 — Hearing held · Congress.gov: “Subcommittee Hearings Held”
- Sep 17, 2025 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Sep 17, 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 H5879-5880)”
- Dec 15, 2025 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Stauber moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended”
- Feb 26, 2026 — Passed both chambers · Congress.gov: “Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S697-699)”
- May 12, 2026 — Sent to president · Congress.gov: “Presented to President”
- May 19, 2026 — Signed into law · Congress.gov: “Became Public Law No: 119-93”
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 Dec 2025 to Dec 2025.
Those reports show $690,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 83 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Nicholas Begich, who sponsored the bill, received $1,039,127 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees — $690,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Tongass National Forest — A big forest owned by the U.S. government in Alaska
- Cape Fox Village Corporation — An Alaska Native group that represents the Native Village of Saxman
- Sealaska Corporation — An Alaska Native group that gets mineral rights under the land
- surface — The top layer of land that people can walk on and use
- 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.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (3,441 characters) on Apr 7, 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 Dec 2025 to Dec 2025. 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 Jan 16, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-18.
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