Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025
Key claim: HR2302 would transfer approximately 204.14 acres in El Dorado County, California, into federal trust for the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, making the land part of the tribe’s reservation while prohibiting gaming on it.
Abstract
(HR2302 · 119th Congress) Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025 This bill takes approximately 204.14 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 85.3 acres of federal land managed by Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (which includes the land transferred from the Forest Service), and (2) approximately 118.84 acres of fee land held by the tribe. These combined lands, approximately 204.14 acres, shall be part of the tribe’s reservation. Further, the bill prohibits gaming on the land taken into trust. Latest action (2026-05-20): Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
[This finding represents 2 closely related documents issued 2026-05-20 (same source, same action). Related: congress:119-s-2735:introduced]
Why this matters
Land-into-trust legislation directly changes the land use and jurisdictional status of specific parcels, removing them from local zoning and property tax rolls and placing them under tribal/federal authority. While this bill uses established trust-transfer mechanisms and explicitly bars gaming, it illustrates the ongoing federal role in reshaping land use jurisdiction at the county level.