PoliticalRepoPoliticalRepo

United States · Law · HR

H.R. 2912 (108th)

To reaffirm the inherent sovereign rights of the Osage Tribe to determine its membership and form of government.

enactedUnited States· United States Congress· EN

Introduced

25 July 2003

Last action

Status

Became Public Law No: 108-431.

Sponsors

Subjects

Discovery layer

Source updated

20 June 2025

Summary

Declares the term " legal membership" in the Osage Allotment Act of June 28, 1906 means the persons eligible for allotments of Osage Reservation lands and a pro rata share of the Osage mineral estate in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, as provided in such Act, not membership in the Osage Tribe, for all purposes. Reaffirms the inherent sovereign right of the Tribe to determine its own: (1) membership, provided that the rights of any person to Osage mineral estate shares are not diminished; and (2) form of government. Requires the Secretary of the Interior, at the request of the Tribe, to provide assistance in conducting elections and referenda to implement this Act.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

20 official files

Enrolled Bill (text)

View fileDownload file

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.

Sources

PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.