Albuquerque Indian School Act of 2025

Summary

Albuquerque Indian School Act of 2025 This bill takes three tracts of specified federal land (approximately 9.89 acres) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, into trust for the benefit of the 19 Pueblos of New Mexico. (These three tracts of land were historically part of the Albuquerque Indian School, which was an Indian boarding school until 1981.) The land is currently administered by the General Services Administration (GSA). Within 90 days of this bill's enactment and the relocation of all federal tenants, the bill requires (1) the GSA to transfer administrative jurisdiction over the land to the Department of the Interior, and (2) Interior to take the land into trust for the benefit of the 19 Pueblos. The land taken into trust must be subject to a right-of-way easement, as determined by the GSA, on the federal land located within Tract 1 for purposes of retrieving or relocating federal property from the land to another location. (Tract 1, which is approximately 3.57 acres, contains a warehouse that is 76,682 square feet.) The bill requires the land taken into trust to be used for the educational, health, cultural, business, and economic development of the 19 Pueblos. Further, the land must remain subject to existing private and municipal encumbrances, rights-of-way, restrictions, easements of record, and utility service agreements. The bill prohibits gaming on the land taken into trust.

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Timeline

1. 19 November 2025

   Introduced

   Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 19 November 2025

   Introduced

   Introduced in Senate

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 3 June 2026

   Committee

   Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held.

   Source: Committee

4. 5 August 2026

   Reported

   Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.

   Source: Committee

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Documents

2 official files

• Introduced in Senate

  Introduced in Senate · EN · 19 November 2025

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 19 November 2025

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Sponsors

• Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM] · D · Sponsor
• Sen. Luján, Ben Ray [D-NM] · D · Sponsor
• · slia00 · Other

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