A bill to reaffirm the applicability of the Indian Reorganization Act to the Lytton Rancheria of California, and for other purposes.

This bill makes sure that a law called the Indian Reorganization Act applies to the Lytton Rancheria, a tribe in California. A 2009 Supreme Court case ruled that the government couldn't take land into trust for certain tribes if they weren't under federal authority when the law was passed in 1934. This bill says the Lytton Rancheria is considered to have been under federal authority at that time and allows the Department of the Interior to acquire land and hold it in trust for the tribe as part of their reservation.

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