A bill to amend the Catawba Indian Tribe of South Carolina Land Claims Settlement Act of 1993 with respect to future membership in the Catawba Indian Nation.

This bill changes the rules about who can be a member of the Catawba Indian Nation, a tribe in South Carolina. A law from 1993 said that only certain descendants who kept an ongoing political relationship with the tribe could become members. This bill removes those restrictions and lets the tribe decide its own membership rules, though the tribe currently requires anyone who wants to join to prove they are a descendant of someone listed on one of three official membership lists.

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