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H.R. 2252 · 119th Congress

North Dakota Trust Lands Completion Act of 2026

Introduced Mar 21, 2025Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Read the textOn Congress.gov

Status: Passed House

  1. Introduced
  2. Committee
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. To President
  6. Law

Latest action

: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

Summary

North Dakota Trust Lands Completion Act of 2026

This bill allows North Dakota to exchange certain state land grant parcels (e.g., lands granted to North Dakota by Congress when it became a state) located wholly or partially within an Indian reservation for certain federal land of substantially equivalent value. North Dakota manages oil, gas, and agriculture leases on state land grant parcels to generate revenue for education and other public benefits. However, tribal reservations were created on state land grant parcels and reduced the amount of land available for revenue generation.

Specifically, the bill allows the North Dakota Board of University and School Lands to exchange with the Department of the Interior state land grant parcels located wholly or partially within tribal reservations for certain public land in North Dakota administered by the Bureau of Land Management. Upon the request of a tribe, Interior must hold exchanged land within the tribe's reservation in trust on behalf of the tribe.

Further, the bill provides for the continuation of active grazing operations on land exchanged under this bill.

Summary by the Congressional Research Service.

Actions

  1. Senate

    Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

  2. House

    Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

  3. House

    On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3567-3569)

  4. House

    DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2252.

  5. House

    Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3567-3570)

  6. House

    Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.

  7. House

    Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 501.

  8. House

    Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-581.

  9. House

    Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.

  10. House

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

  11. House

    Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

  12. Introduced in House