S. 2735 · On the floor · Native Americans

Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025

What it does

Take approximately 265 acres of specified federal and tribal fee lands in El Dorado County, California into trust for the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, adding them to the tribe's reservation.
Revoke a public land order that designated approximately 80 acres as a Forest Service experiment station and transfer that land from Forest Service to Department of the Interior.
Prohibit gaming on all lands taken into trust under this act.
Direct the Department of the Interior to take into trust approximately 80 acres of Bureau of Land Management land and approximately 185 acres of fee land held by the tribe.

Official summary

Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025 This bill takes approximately 265 acres of specified lands in El Dorado County, California, into trust for the benefit of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians. The bill revokes a specified public land order and administratively transfers the land from the Forest Service to the Department of the Interior. (In the public land order, the land was designated for use by the Forest Service as an experiment station.) The bill directs Interior to take the following lands into trust for the benefit of the tribe: (1) approximately 80 acres of federal land managed by Interior's Bureau of Land Management (which includes the land transferred from the Forest Service), and (2) approximately 185 acres of fee land held by the tribe. These combined lands, approximately 265 acres, shall be part of the tribe's reservation. Further, the bill prohibits gaming on the land taken into trust.

Latest action

Sep 22, 2026: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 674.

Committee: Senate Indian Affairs