Albuquerque Indian School Act of 2025

Summary

Albuquerque Indian School Act of 2025 This bill takes three tracts of specified federal land (approximately 9.89 acres) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, into trust for the benefit of the 19 Pueblos of New Mexico. (These three tracts of land were historically part of the Albuquerque Indian School, which was an Indian boarding school until 1981.) The land is currently administered by the General Services Administration (GSA). Within 90 days of this bill's enactment and the relocation of all federal tenants, the bill requires (1) the GSA to transfer administrative jurisdiction over the land to the Department of the Interior, and (2) Interior to take the land into trust for the benefit of the 19 Pueblos. The land taken into trust must be subject to a right-of-way easement, as determined by the GSA, on the federal land located within Tract 1 for purposes of retrieving or relocating federal property from the land to another location. (Tract 1, which is approximately 3.57 acres, contains a warehouse that is 76,682 square feet.) The bill requires the land taken into trust to be used for the educational, health, cultural, business, and economic development of the 19 Pueblos. Further, the land must remain subject to existing private and municipal encumbrances, rights-of-way, restrictions, easements of record, and utility service agreements. The bill prohibits gaming on the land taken into trust.

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Passed one of the two chambers; it still needs the other.

Senate Committee on Indian Affairs · U.S. Senate

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Related bills

• H.R. 6162Albuquerque Indian School Act of 2025Identical bill

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Full history

1. Oct 5, 2026

   Held at the desk.

2. Oct 5, 2026

   Message on Senate Action Sent to the House.

   Message on Senate action sent to the House.

   U.S. Senate

3. Oct 5, 2026

   Sent to the executive

   Received in the House.

   U.S. House of Representatives

4. Sep 29, 2026

   Passed a chamber

   Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5145-5146; text: CR S5145-5146)

   U.S. Senate

5. Sep 23, 2026

   Reported out of committee

   Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Murkowski with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 119-153.

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