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H. Rept. 115-902 1 (2018-08-21)

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                      115TH CONGRESS                                             REPORT
                         2d Session      HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                115-902







                                   STIGLER ACT AMENDMENTS OF 2018



                       AUGUST 21, 2018.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
                                         of the Union and ordered to be printed



                        Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
                                             submitted the following


                                                 REPORT

                                               [To accompany H.R. 2606]

                                [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]

                        The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
                      bill (H.R. 2606) to amend the Act of August 4, 1947 (commonly
                      known as the Stigler Act), with respect to restrictions applicable to
                      Indians of the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma, and for other
                      purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon
                      with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do
                      pass.
                        The amendment is as follows:
                        Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
                      SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
                        This Act may be cited as the Stigler Act Amendments of 2018.
                      SEC. 2. IN GENERAL.
                        The first section of the Act of August 4, 1947 (61 Stat. 731, chapter 458), is
                      amended-
                           (1) in the matter before subsection (a), by striking That all restrictions and
                         all that follows through subsection (a) and inserting the following:
                         SEc. 1. (a) All restrictions against alienation, conveyance, lease, mortgage, cre-
                      ation of liens, or other encumbrances upon all lands, including oil and gas or other
                      mineral interests, in Oklahoma belonging to a lineal descendant by blood of an origi-
                      nal enrollee whose name appears on the Final Indian Rolls of the Five Civilized
                      Tribes in Indian Territory, whether acquired by allotment, inheritance, devise, gift,
                      purchase, exchange, partition, partition sale, or by purchase with restricted funds,
                      of whatever degree of Indian blood, and whether enrolled or unenrolled, shall be and
                      are hereby, extended until an Act of Congress determines otherwise.
                        (b) The extension of restrictions described in subsection (a) shall include without
                      limitation, those interests in the estate of a decedent Indian who died before the
                      date of enactment of the Stigler Act Amendments of 2018-
                           (1) if such interests were acquired by an heir or devisee of one-half or more
                         degree of Indian blood, as computed from the nearest enrolled lineal ancestors
                         of Indian blood enrolled on the Final Rolls described in subsection (a), by final
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