119-hr42

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[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.