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118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-867
ALASKA NATIVE SETTLEMENT TRUST ELIGIBILITY ACT
DECEMBER 12, 2024.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 2687]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 2687) to amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
to exclude certain payments to aged, blind, or disabled Alaska Na-
tives or descendants of Alaska Natives from being used to deter-
mine eligibility for certain programs, and for other purposes, hav-
ing considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amend-
ment and recommends 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 Alaska Native Settlement Trust Eligibility Act.
SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY FOR CERTAIN PROGRAMS.
Section 29(c) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1626(c)) is
amended, in the undesignated matter following paragraph (3), by striking subpara-
graph (E) and inserting the following:
(E) an interest in a Settlement Trust and, for the 5-year period beginning
on the date of the enactment of the Alaska Native Settlement Trust Eligibility
Act, an amount distributed from or benefit provided by a Settlement Trust to
a Native or descendant of a Native who is an aged, blind, or disabled individual
(as defined in section 1614(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1382c(a)))..
PURPOSE OF THE LEGISLATION
The purpose of H.R. 2687 is to amend the Alaska Native Claims
Settlement Act to exclude certain payments to aged, blind, or dis-
abled Alaska Natives or descendants of Alaska Natives from being
used to determine eligibility for certain programs, and for other
purposes.
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