Alaska Native Vietnam veterans get 10 more years for land
H.R. 410 — Alaska Native Vietnam Era Veterans Land Allotment Extension Act of 2025 · Filed by Nicholas Begich (R-AK) · Introduced Jan 15, 2025 · Signed
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What it does
The bill extends a program for Alaska Native veterans. These veterans served during the Vietnam War era. They can claim federal land as payment for service. The program will now continue for 10 more years.
Who it affects
Alaska Native veterans from the Vietnam War era benefit. The Department of Interior will process their land claims.
One thing to notice
The bill text does not say how many veterans can use this program. It does not say how much land is available.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Jan 15, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jan 15, 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”
- Feb 5, 2025 — Hearing held · Congress.gov: “Subcommittee Hearings Held”
- Jun 25, 2025 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Jun 25, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent”
- Jul 14, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3227)”
- Jul 14, 2025 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill”
- Dec 16, 2025 — Passed both chambers · Congress.gov: “Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S8766-8768)”
- Dec 18, 2025 — Sent to president · Congress.gov: “Presented to President”
- Dec 26, 2025 — Signed into law · Congress.gov: “Became Public Law No: 119-63”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
2 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 4 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $160,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 8 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 41% of bills with any report.
Nicholas Begich, who sponsored the bill, received $1,039,127 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Calista Corporation — $100,000 in 2 reports
- Tanana Chiefs Conference — $60,000 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- federal land — Land owned by the United States government
- Department of Interior — The federal agency that manages public lands and Native American affairs
- Vietnam War era — The time period when the Vietnam War took place
- 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 (454 characters) on Jun 8, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,206 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 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 2026-09-17.
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