Senate bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Passed Senate
A bill to amend the Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience Act to authorize grants to Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and Native Hawaiian organizations, and for other purposes.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedFeb 18, 2025
- Committee actionMar 5, 2025
- Passed SenateDec 16, 2025 · by unanimous consent
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 17, 2025 — Held at the desk.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 612.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 612, a bill to amend the Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience Act to authorize grants to Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and Native Hawaiian organizations, and for other purposes” on March 27, 2025. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on March 5, 2025”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 27, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61269
- CBO publication date
- March 27, 2025
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 612, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/s/612
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- June 11, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
1cd4398be283db72c8d0701c63e728d3c7ffacd327959ab1f933a4aafffdbe08
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- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: S. Rept. 119-20 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Indian Affairs Committee on May 8, 2025.Source: Congress.gov, reported May 8, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/119/SRPT/20
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 612, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/s/612
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- June 11, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
1cd4398be283db72c8d0701c63e728d3c7ffacd327959ab1f933a4aafffdbe08
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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 Republican
1 of 1 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
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Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
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