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116TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-54
MASHPEE WAMPANOAG TRIBE RESERVATION
REAFFIRMATION ACT
MAY 10, 2019.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 312]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 312) to reaffirm the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe reserva-
tion, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report fa-
vorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill
as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Reservation Reaffirma-
tion Act.
SEC. 2. REAFFIRMATION OF INDIAN TRUST LAND.
(a) IN GENERAL.-The taking of land into trust by the United States for the ben-
efit of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe of Massachusetts as described in the final
Notice of Reservation Proclamation (81 Fed. Reg. 948; January 8, 2016) is re-
affirmed as trust land and the actions of the Secretary of the Interior in taking that
land into trust are ratified and confirmed.
(b) APPLICATION.-Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an action (includ-
ing an action pending in a Federal court as of the date of enactment of this Act)
relating to the land described in subsection (a) shall not be filed or maintained in
a Federal court and shall be promptly dismissed.
(c) APPLICABILITY OF LAws.-All laws (including regulations) of the United States
of general applicability to Indians or nations, Indian Tribes, or bands of Indians (in-
cluding the Act of June 18, 1934 (25 U.S.C. 5101 et seq.)), shall be applicable to
the Tribe and Tribal members, except that to the extent such laws and regulations
are inconsistent with the terms of the Intergovernmental Agreement, dated April
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