119th Congress · introduced in the Senate · Jan 16, 2025
Lumbee Fairness Act
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Latest action (Nov 5, 2025): Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 119-275.
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Congressional Research Service summary, version: Introduced in Senate (Jan 16, 2025)
Lumbee Fairness Act
This bill extends federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina and makes its members eligible for the services and benefits provided to members of federally recognized tribes.
Members of the tribe residing in Robeson, Cumberland, Hoke, and Scotland Counties in North Carolina are deemed to be within the delivery area for such services.
The Department of the Interior and the Department of Health and Human Services must develop, in consultation with the tribe, a determination of needs to provide the services for which members of the tribe are eligible.
Interior may take land into trust for the benefit of the tribe.
Finally, North Carolina must exercise jurisdiction over all criminal offenses committed, and all civil actions that arise, on North Carolina lands owned by, or held in trust for, the Lumbee Tribe or any dependent Indian community of the tribe unless jurisdiction is transferred to the United States pursuant to an agreement between the tribe and the state.
Includes amendment, cloture, and procedural votes. Each is labeled with its exact question; only a passage question is a vote to pass the bill.
No recorded roll calls on this bill in coverage.
Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 119-275.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
Introduced in Senate
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