The Albuquerque Indian School Act of 2025 transfers approximately 9.89 acres of federally owned land in Albuquerque, New Mexico, into trust for 19 Native American Pueblos — including Acoma, Taos, Zuni, and 16 others. The land was historically part of the Albuquerque Indian School and is currently under General Services Administration control; the transfer must be completed within 90 days of enactment. A 76,682-square-foot warehouse on one of the three parcels goes directly to the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in fee ownership rather than trust. The Pueblos may use the land for education, health, cultural programs, business, and economic development, but gambling under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act is explicitly prohibited on the transferred parcels.
Congressional Summary
Albuquerque Indian School Act of 2025This 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, the GSA must (1) relocate all federal tenants on the land, and (2) transfer administrative jurisdiction over the land to the Department of the Interior.Within 90 days after the relocation of federal tenants and transfer of administrative jurisdiction, the bill requires (1) Interior to take the land into trust for the benefit of the 19 Pueblos, and (2) the federal government to convey its ownership interests in buildings and other structures located within Tract 1 to the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center to own in fee. (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.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Reported to House
- Action Date
- 2026-05-20
- Date Added
- 2026-05-30
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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