S. 2554 · 119th Congress
Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act
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This bill allows five Alaska Native communities in Southeast Alaska to form urban corporations and receive land entitlements.
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in Senate · Jul 30, 2025
Alaska Native Landless Equity Act
This bill allows five Alaska Native communities in Southeast Alaska to form urban corporations and receive land entitlements.
Specifically, the bill allows the Alaska Native residents of each of the Alaska Native villages of Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell, Alaska, to organize as Alaska Native urban corporations and to receive certain settlement land.
The bill directs the Department of the Interior to convey specified land to each urban corporation. Further, Interior must convey the subsurface estate for that land to the regional corporation for Southeast Alaska.
The land conveyed to each urban corporation must include any U.S. interest in all roads, trails, log transfer facilities, leases, and appurtenances on or related to the land conveyed to the urban corporation.
The bill also allows each urban corporation to establish a settlement trust to (1) promote the health, education, and welfare of the trust beneficiaries; and (2) preserve the Alaska Native heritage and culture of their communities.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act
Also known as: Alaska Native Landless Equity Act
Latest action (Sep 17, 2026): Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 639.
Policy area: Native Americans · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Jul 30, 2025
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.