[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
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[H.R. 42 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.42

                     One Hundred Nineteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday,
         the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-five


                                 An Act


 
  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.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
    This Act may be cited as the ``Alaska Native Settlement Trust 
Eligibility Act''.
SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY FOR CERTAIN PROGRAMS.
    Section 29(c) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 
1626(c)) is amended, in the undesignated matter following paragraph 
(3), by striking subparagraph (E) and inserting the following:
        ``(E) an interest in a Settlement Trust and, for the 5-year 
    period beginning on the date of the enactment of the Alaska Native 
    Settlement Trust Eligibility Act, an amount distributed from or 
    benefit provided by a Settlement Trust to a Native or descendant of 
    a Native who is an aged, blind, or disabled individual (as defined 
    in section 1614(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
    1382c(a))).''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.