Federal mineral land swapped for Crow Tribe mineral land in Montana
S. 239 — Crow Revenue Act · Filed by Steve Daines (R-MT) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Jan 24, 2025 · Reported out
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What it does
The bill trades mineral rights in Montana. The Hope Family Trust gives 4,660 acres of mineral rights to the Crow Tribe. The Hope Family Trust receives 4,530 acres of federal mineral rights in the Bull Mountains. The Crow Tribe's mineral assets will be held in federal trust. These assets will not be taxed.
Who it affects
The Crow Tribe of Montana gains mineral assets and tax-exempt status. The Hope Family Trust receives federal mineral lands. The federal government transfers public mineral lands to a private trust.
One thing to notice
The bill does not say what value each side gets. The bill does not explain the terms for sharing money from minerals. The bill does not set a deadline for development.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Republicans.
- Jan 24, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jan 24, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Indian Affairs · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs”
- Aug 5, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably”
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 $120,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 4 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 41% of bills with any report.
Steve Daines, who sponsored the bill, received $916,144 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Crow Tribe of Indians — $60,000 in 2 reports
- Global Mining Holding Company, LLC — $60,000 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- mineral rights — The legal right to dig up and sell minerals like coal or oil
- federal trust — Land or property held by the federal government for a Native American tribe
- tax-exempt — Not required to pay taxes to the state or federal government
- 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 (4,693 characters) on Aug 19, 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 16, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-17.
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