YourVoice.Now Summary
Civil LibertiesTargeted & Unrelated Provisions19 Pueblo tribes would get about 9.89 acres of the old Indian School site in Albuquerque — no gambling.
Civil Liberties
The General Services Administration would move its tenants out and hand the site to the Interior Department. Interior would then hold the title in trust for the 19 Pueblos, who could use it for schools, health care, culture, and business.
The land would carry over every right-of-way, easement, and utility deal already on it. People who cross the property or run lines through it would not lose that right.
Federal law lets tribes run some gambling on trust land, under set rules. This bill blocks both bingo-style and casino-style gambling on these three tracts.
Targeted & Unrelated Provisions
Tract 1 holds a 76,682-square-foot warehouse. Instead of going into trust with the rest of the land, that building would be signed over to the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center to own outright.
More about this bill
Almost no one outside Albuquerque would notice this change. About 9.89 acres of federal land in that city would be put into trust for 19 Pueblo tribes. The tracts were once part of the Albuquerque Indian School. Federal offices there would have 90 days to move out. The tribes could then use the land for schools, health care, cultural programs, and businesses. One building would not go into trust. A 76,682-square-foot warehouse would be signed over to the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center to own outright. Bingo halls and casinos would be barred on all three tracts. Rights-of-way, easements, and utility deals already on the land would stay in force. So neighbors and utility crews would keep the access they have now.
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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