To reaffirm the trust status of land taken into trust by the United States pursuant to the Act of June 18, 1934, for the benefit of an Indian Tribe that was federally recognized on the date that the land was taken into trust.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5257.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. COLE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 148, September 10, 2025, Page H4239):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 10, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  32 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5257, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5257

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 18, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  957db67129eb6e84ca6a51306cc856c16bea857964028e1602a88b9c8d51193b

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of September 18, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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