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Main Subject: Native Americans

Lumbee Recognition Act This bill extends federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina and makes its members eligible for the services and benefits provided to members of federally recognized tribes. Members of the tribe residing in Robeson, Cumberland, Hoke, and Scotland counties in North Carolina are deemed to be within the delivery area for such services. The Department of the Interior and the Department of Health and Human Services must develop, in consultation with the tribe, a determination of needs to provide the services for which members of the tribe are eligible. Interior may take land into trust for the benefit of the tribe. Finally, North Carolina must exercise jurisdiction over all criminal offenses committed, and all civil actions that arise, on North Carolina lands owned by, or held in trust for, the Lumbee Tribe or any dependent Indian community of the tribe unless jurisdiction is transferred to the United States pursuant to an agreement between the tribe and the state.

Senate Actions

Calendars
Oct. 11 2022	Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 522.
Sep. 29 2022	Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.

IntroReferral
Nov. 02 2021	Received in the Senate.

House floor actions Actions

Floor

Nov. 01
2021

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 357 - 59, 1 Present (Roll no. 341). (text: CR H6041)
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H6054)
At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2758.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6041-6043)
Ms. Leger Fernandez moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.

IntroReferral
Apr. 22 2021	Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

Library of Congress Actions

Floor
Nov. 01 2021	Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 357 - 59, 1 Present (Roll no. 341).(text: CR H6041)