Bill Details
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2025-12-15 - Held at the desk.
Introduced Date
2025-02-18
Policy Area
Native Americans
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This bill agrees to the request of the Lower Sioux Indian Community in Minnesota to end, or revoke, its old federal charter of incorporation. The charter was originally issued in 1937 under the Indian Reorganization Act, and this bill makes that revocation official.
- The request to give up the charter came from the community itself.
- The bill confirms that the charter is revoked once Congress accepts the request.
Official Summaries
This bill accepts the request of the Lower Sioux Indian Community (a federally recognized Indian tribe in Minnesota) to revoke the community's charter of incorporation.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 621 Engrossed in Senate (ES)]
<DOC>
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 621
_______________________________________________________________________
AN ACT
To accept the request to revoke the charter of incorporation of the
Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of Minnesota at the request
of that Community, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. REVOCATION OF CHARTER OF INCORPORATION OF THE LOWER SIOUX
INDIAN COMMUNITY.
The request of the Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of
Minnesota to surrender the charter of incorporation issued to that
community and ratified on July 17, 1937, pursuant to section 17 of the
Act of June 18, 1934 (commonly known as the ``Indian Reorganization
Act'') (48 Stat. 988, chapter 576; 25 U.S.C. 5124), is hereby accepted
and that charter of incorporation is hereby revoked.
Passed the Senate December 11, 2025.
Attest:
Secretary.
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 621
_______________________________________________________________________
AN ACT
To accept the request to revoke the charter of incorporation of the
Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of Minnesota at the request
of that Community, and for other purposes.