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[actionDate] => 1998-10-07
[displayText] => Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported to Senate by Senator Campbell with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 105-379.
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[description] => Introduced
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Passed Senate
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[actionDate] => 1998-10-09
[displayText] => Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
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[description] => Passed Senate
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Passed House
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[actionDate] => 1998-10-10
[displayText] => Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
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[description] => Passed House
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Resolving Differences
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[actionDate] => 1998-10-14
[displayText] => Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to the House amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S12465-12466)
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[description] => Resolving Differences
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To President
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[actionDate] => 1998-11-02
[displayText] => Presented to President.
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[description] => To President
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Became Law
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[actionDate] => 1998-11-13
[displayText] => Became Public Law No: 105-387.
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[description] => Became Law
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Mississippi Sioux Tribes Judgment Fund Distribution Act of 1998 - Provides for the distribution of certain funds to the Sisseton and Wahpeton Tribes of Sioux Indians to pay a judgment in favor of those tribes.
(Sec. 4) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to transfer a specified aggregate amount to be credited to accounts established in a Fund Account for the benefit of the applicable governing bodies of the : (1) Spirit Lake Tribe of North Dakota; (2) Sisseton and Wahpeton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota; and (3) Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana. Designates the Sisseton and Wahpeton Sioux Council of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes as the tribal governing body of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation for purposes of making such distributions.
(Sec. 5) Prohibits funds allocated for a covered Indian tribe from being used to make per capita payments to tribe members.
Allows funds allocated to be used, administered, and managed by a tribal governing body only for the purpose of making investments or expenditures that the tribal governing body determines to be reasonably related to: (1) economic development; (2) tribal resources development; (3) the development of beneficial tribal programs, including educational and social welfare programs; (4) any existing obligation or debt arising out of any such activities; and (5) specified attorneys' fees.
(Sec. 6) Sets forth provisions concerning the effect of payments to a covered Indian tribe or an individual on eligibility for, or the reduction or denial of, Federal benefits.
(Sec. 7) Directs the Secretary to distribute a specified amount to the lineal descendants of the Sisseton and Wahpeton Tribes of Sioux Indians. Requires ancestral verification of such descendants.
(Sec. 8) Sets forth procedural requirements for civil actions brought by or on behalf of a lineal descendant or any group or combination thereof to challenge the constitutionality or validity of such distributions.
