Jamul Indian Village Land Transfer Act

The revised version reduces the total acreage being placed into trust from 172.1 acres to 167.23 acres by removing two parcels (Parcel 3 and Parcel 4, totaling 4.87 acres) from the direct trust acquisition. Instead, it creates a new "reaffirmation" section acknowledging that those 4.87 acres were already placed into trust by the Interior Department on July 19 and August 19, 2024. The revision also adds a new provision allowing the Interior Secretary to accept an additional 1.1 acres of land into trust if the tribe conveys it to the federal government, and updates the gaming prohibition to clarify it applies to all the described parcels.

Summary of Changes

The current version removes the distinction between newly transferred land and previously trust land, consolidating everything into a single trust status framework. The acreage totals were adjusted slightly from 167.23 acres to 172.10 acres, and the previous version's separate "reaffirmation" section for Parcels 3 and 4 (which had been placed in trust in July-August 2024) was eliminated—those parcels are now treated the same as Parcels 1 and 2 in the main land description. The gaming prohibition language was also simplified to reference subsections (b) and (c) rather than including a separate reference to previously reaffirmed land.

There are no substantive policy changes between the engrossed Senate version and the enrolled bill version. Both versions are identical in all material respects, including the land parcels to be held in trust, acreage amounts, legal descriptions, the gaming prohibition, and all other substantive provisions.