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Senate Bill 245
115th Congress(2017-2018)
Indian Tribal Energy Development and Self-Determination Act Amendments of 2017
Became Law
Became Law
Became Public Law 115-325 on Dec 18, 2018
Overview
Text
Introduced
Jan 30, 2017
Latest Action
Dec 18, 2018
Origin Chamber
Senate
Type
Bill
Bill
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Bill Number
245
Congress
115
Policy Area
Native Americans
Native Americans
Primary focus of measure is matters affecting Native Americans, including Alaska Natives and Hawaiians, in a variety of domestic policy settings. This includes claims, intergovernmental relations, and Indian lands and resources.
Sponsorship by Party
Republican
John Hoeven
North Dakota
Republican
John McCain
Arizona
Republican
Cory Gardner
Colorado
Republican
Jerry Moran
Kansas
Democrat
Heidi Heitkamp
North Dakota
Republican
James Lankford
Oklahoma
Republican
John Barrasso
Wyoming
Republican
Mike Enzi
Wyoming
Senate Votes (1)
House Votes (1)
checkPassed on November 29, 2017
Status
Passed
Type
Unanimous Consent
Unanimous Consent
A senator may request unanimous consent on the floor to set aside a specified rule of procedure so as to expedite proceedings. If no Senator objects, the Senate permits the action, but if any one senator objects, the request is rejected. Unanimous consent requests with only immediate effects are routinely granted, but ones affecting the floor schedule, the conditions of considering a bill or other business, or the rights of other senators, are normally not offered, or a floor leader will object to it, until all senators concerned have had an opportunity to inform the leaders that they find it acceptable.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S7491-7497; text: CR S7491-7497)
Summary

Indian Tribal Energy Development and Self-Determination Act Amendments of 2017

This bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to revise the Department of Energy (DOE) Indian energy education planning and management assistance program, including to make intertribal organizations eligible for grants.

Eligibility for DOE energy development loan guarantees is expanded to include tribal energy development organizations.

The bill revises provisions regarding energy-related tribal leases, business agreements, and rights-of-way, including to revise the process for the Department of the Interior to approve tribal energy resource agreements. Interior must make available to a tribe the amount Interior would have expended to carry out an activity that the tribe is carrying out pursuant to such an agreement.

This bill amends the Federal Power Act to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to give tribes, in addition to states and municipalities, preference for the receipt of preliminary hydroelectric licenses.

Interior and the Department of Agriculture must enter into agreements with tribes and tribal organizations to carry out demonstration projects to promote biomass energy production.

This bill amends the Energy Conservation and Production Act to revise requirements for home weatherization grants to tribes.

Interior, an affected tribe, or a certified third-party appraiser under contract with the tribe must appraise tribal mineral or energy resources involved in a transaction requiring Interior's approval.

This bill amends the Long-Term Leasing Act to revise limits on leasing of certain lands of the Navajo Nation and the Crow Tribe of Montana.

Text (6)
Enrolled Bill
Reported in House
November 30, 2018
Referred in House
November 30, 2017
Engrossed in Senate
November 29, 2017
Reported to Senate
May 24, 2017
Introduced in Senate
January 30, 2017
Related Bills (1)
Jun 28, 2017
Introduced in Senate
2
Sponsorship
Senate Bill 1460
Energy and Natural Resources Act of 2017
Introduced
Type
Related Bill
Related Bill
A related bill may be a companion measure, an identical bill, a procedurally-related measure, or one with text similarities. Bill relationships are identified by the House, the Senate, or CRS, and refer only to same-Congress measures.
Identified By
CRS
12/18/2018
Became Public Law No: 115-325.
12/18/2018
Signed by President.
12/12/2018
Presented to President.
12/10/2018
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
12/10/2018
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H9782-9788)
12/10/2018
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H9782-9788)
12/10/2018
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on S. 245.
12/10/2018
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H9782-9789)
12/10/2018
Mr. Bishop (UT) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
11/30/2018
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 823.
11/30/2018
Committee on Energy and Commerce discharged.
11/30/2018
Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 115-1057, Part I.
11/15/2018
Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
11/15/2018
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
11/15/2018
Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs Discharged.
12/04/2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
12/04/2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
12/01/2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
11/30/2017
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
11/30/2017
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
11/30/2017
Received in the House.
11/29/2017
Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7491-7497; text: CR S7491-7497)
11/29/2017
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S7491-7497; text: CR S7491-7497)
05/24/2017
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 104.
05/24/2017
Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Hoeven without amendment. With written report No. 115-84.
02/08/2017
Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported favorably.
01/30/2017
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S492)
01/30/2017
Introduced in Senate
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