To provide for the recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, and for other purposes.
United States115th CongressHR-3650House of Representatives
Updated: Sep 26, 2017
Summary
Lumbee Recognition Act This bill amends the Act of June 7, 1956, to extend federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina and make 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 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. The Department of the Interior may take land into trust for the tribe. The tribe may not conduct gaming activities. 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.
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S-1047: A bill to provide for the recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, and for other purposes.Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
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