Senate bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2015
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedFeb 11, 2015
- Committee actionMar 18, 2015
- Passed Senate—
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 10, 2015 — Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 221.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 465.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 465, Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2015” on March 27, 2015. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on March 18, 2015 S. 465 would provide federal recognition to six Indian tribes in Virginia—the Chickahominy Indian Tribe, the Eastern Division of the Chickahominy Indian Tribe, the Upper Mattaponi Tribe, the Rappahannock Tribe, Inc., the Monacan Indian Nation, and the Nansemond Indian Tribe. Federal recognition would make the tribes eligible to receive benefits from various federal programs”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 27, 2015 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/50060
- CBO publication date
- March 27, 2015
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 465, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/s/465
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 10, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: S. Rept. 114-141 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Indian Affairs Committee on September 10, 2015.Source: Congress.gov, reported September 10, 2015 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/114/SRPT/141
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 465, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/s/465
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 10, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
1 cosponsor — 1 Democrat
0 of 1 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 23, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.