The record

LegislationLegislation· Dec 2024
S 623

Sponsored by Lisa Murkowski (R)

A bill to amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to exclude certain payments to aged, blind, or disabled Alaska Natives or descendants of Alaska Natives from being used to determine eligibility for certain programs, and for other purposes.

Would have shielded certain Alaska Native settlement trust payments from counting toward need-based program eligibility.

Tradeoff

Would have excluded certain settlement trust payments from eligibility checks for need-based federal programs. Those programs include , the federal food assistance program.

What's in it

See official bill text
S. 623, a bill to amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to exclude certain payments to aged, blind, or disabled Alaska Natives or descendants of Alaska Natives from being used to determine eligibility for certain programs, and for other purposeswww.cbo.gov/publication/59463 · Aug 2023

The Senate passed this bill by on December 19, 2024. The House never voted on it before the 118th Congress ended, so the bill expired.

  1. Senate

    Introduced

    (Mar 2, 2023)

  2. Senate

    Committee on Energy and Natural Resources(Mar 2, 2023)

  3. Senate

    The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources voted to send it to the floor

    Reported(May 17, 2023)

    Committee report S. Rept. 118-56.

  4. Senate

    Passage of the bill

    Passed by (Dec 19, 2024)

    No individual votes were recorded.

  5. House

    Received from the Senate

    Received(Dec 20, 2024)