Alaska Native Settlement Trust Eligibility Act
Payments from Alaska Native settlement trusts no longer count against aged, blind or disabled Alaska Natives when agencies decide whether they qualify for certain assistance programs.
What this law changes
From a secondary sourcePayments from Alaska Native settlement trusts no longer count against aged, blind or disabled Alaska Natives when agencies decide whether they qualify for certain assistance programs.
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Transparency Score
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Transparency Score
Share of the text within the stated purpose:Not checked yetThe text of this law provides and authorizes no dollar amount. The score is the share of its text within the stated intent. That share is "Not checked yet": no reading of this law is approved by a person yet.
How this is counted
- Transparency Score: dollars in sections a person approved as within the stated intent, divided by total dollars in the law. Shown as a percentage. Higher means more of the money goes to what the law says it is for.
- Beside it, the same two numbers the other way round: total dollars divided by dollars within the stated intent. 1.00 means every dollar is within the stated intent. When no dollar is within the stated intent this ratio cannot be computed, and the answer says so.
- Total dollars: appropriated dollars plus authorized dollars, read from the law's text by the rules below. Dollars in a section whose reading is unclear or was not read count in the total and are shown apart as unclear.
- A law whose text provides and authorizes no dollar amount reads "No money in this law". Its score is the share of its words that are in sections within the stated intent.
- The score reads "Not checked yet" until a person approves the law's reading of which sections are within the stated intent. The dollar totals need no reading and are shown before that.
- The dollar totals read "Not checked yet" when more than 10 percent of the dollars read could not be sorted by the rules.
- Every dollar amount in our saved text of the law is read: "$1,234,567", "$5 billion", "$2.5 million". Margin notes, page marks and the table of contents are left out. Each amount is kept with the words printed around it.
- Appropriated: the sentence says "there is appropriated", "is hereby appropriated" or "out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated"; or the amount is the one an appropriations paragraph ("For ..., $X") provides under an account heading of an appropriations act.
- Authorized: the sentence says "authorized to be appropriated". An authorization lets a later law provide the money. It provides none itself.
- A list under such a sentence ("there is appropriated the following: (1) ...; (2) ..."): an amount that begins an item is counted the same way as the sentence says, unless the sentence gives a total first. Then the items are parts of that total.
- "$X for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030" is counted as X times the number of years named (here 5). The yearly figure, the years and the product are all kept. "For each fiscal year" with no years named is counted once, and the answer says so.
- Open-ended: "such sums as may be necessary" names no amount. It is counted as an item and adds no dollars.
- Rescinded: "is hereby rescinded", "permanently cancelled", or an item of a list headed "the following funds are hereby rescinded". Shown apart. Not subtracted from the total.
- Not spending, and left out of the total: an amount after "not to exceed", "not more than", "up to", "less than", "in excess of" and like words; a fine or penalty; a limit the law raises ("the limitation is increased by $X"); a figure the law strikes from another law; and a figure inside words it writes into another law ("striking $X and inserting $Y"), unless the same sentence says the figure is authorized or appropriated.
- Counted once: an amount after "of which", after "Provided, That", or after "of the amounts made available" is a part of a total already counted. Where a paragraph ends "in all, $X", that total is counted and the amounts before it are its parts.
- An amount the rules cannot sort is "not classified". It is listed with its words and left out of the total. Nothing is guessed.
- Total dollars: appropriated dollars plus authorized dollars. The two are also shown apart.
What the law says it is for
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Official title
“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.”
The words under "An Act", Public Law 119-22, official text · Saved October 5, 2026 · Fingerprint f25426466f0ebb7f
Short title
“Alaska Native Settlement Trust Eligibility Act”
The sentence that names the Act, Public Law 119-22, official text · Saved October 5, 2026 · Fingerprint f25426466f0ebb7f
Congress's summary · Congressional Research Service
“Alaska Native Settlement Trust Eligibility Act This act excludes certain settlement trust payments to an Alaska Native or descendant of an Alaska Native who is aged, blind, or disabled for purposes of determining the individual's eligibility for certain need-based federal programs (e.g., the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program).”
Summary of the version: Public Law, Congressional Research Service summary: Public Law · Saved October 6, 2026 · Fingerprint 79d32bb822124ec4
The law has no findings or purpose section.
The bill's record names no committee report.
Dollars in this law
Confirmed from the official recordThe text of this law provides and authorizes no dollar amount.
Source: Public Law 119-22, official text · Saved October 5, 2026 · Fingerprint f25426466f0ebb7f
Other measures
Each measure has its own status. None is added into the score.
- Dollars in sections added along the way
- No money in this law
- Member-requested dollars as a share of appropriated dollars
- Not checked yet
No list of member-requested spending is printed in the 16 official records saved for this law, and no committee report says there is none.
- Open-ended amounts (“such sums as may be necessary”)
- 0 passagesConfirmed from the official record
- Other bills whose text this law contains
- 0 billsConfirmed from the official record
- How the House passed it
- Voice vote, February 4, 2025Confirmed from the official record
- How the Senate passed it
- Voice vote, June 18, 2025Confirmed from the official record
- Committee report saved
- None in the official recordConfirmed from the official record
The bill's official record names no committee report.
- Hearing saved
- None in the official recordConfirmed from the official record
The bill's official record names no hearing.
A voice vote or unanimous consent leaves no record of how each member voted.
How these are counted
- Added along the way, sections: sections of the final law marked "added later", divided by the sections compared.
- Added along the way, words: words in those sections, divided by the words in the sections compared.
- Each text is read as a list of words. A run is 5 words in a row. For each section of the final law we count the share of its runs that appear anywhere in the first published text of the bill. 90 percent or more: in the first text. From 20 to 90 percent: changed. Under 20 percent: added later. A section with fewer than 20 words is not compared.
- Sections outside the stated intent: sections a person approved as outside the stated intent, divided by the sections read. The same count is given in words.
- Member-requested spending: the number of items in the lists Congress printed for the law, and the sum of their dollar amounts.
- A part that is not checked yet is shown as "Not checked yet". It is never counted as zero. No single blended number is given.
Added along the way
Confirmed from the official record0 of the 1 section compared are added after the first published text of the bill. None is changed. 1 is in the first text. 1 heading or short section is too short to compare.
A section counts as added later when under 20 percent of its wording appears in the first published text.
The first published text (Introduced in House, January 3, 2025): H.R. 42, Introduced in House · Saved October 7, 2026 · Fingerprint 4c7ace862ff2b0a5
Published texts of this bill, in order: Introduced in House (January 3, 2025), Engrossed in House (February 4, 2025), Received in Senate (February 5, 2025), Enrolled Bill.
Sections added later
No section compared is added later.
Amendments adopted
The record lists no adopted amendment to this bill.
Other bills whose text this law contains
The Congressional Research Service marks no other bill as one whose text this law contains.
Member-requested spending
No list foundNo list of member-requested spending is printed in the 16 official records saved for this law, and no committee report says there is none.
Sections outside the stated intent
Not checked yetA person reviews each reading before it appears here.
On the record
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Press releases by members of Congress
From a secondary sourceThese are press releases from members' official websites that name this law. We save a copy of each one.
7 press releases
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Congressman Nick Begich’s First Two Bills Signed Into Law
“Congressman Begich introduced H.R. 42 and H.R. 43 on his first day in office after being sworn in on January 3, 2025. Congressman Begich is one of the first freshmen in the 119th Congress to send legislation to the President’s desk.”
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Delegation Applauds Passage of Alaska Native Legislation
“WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, along with U.S. Representative Nick Begich (all R-Alaska), applauded Senate passage of two important bills—H.R. 42, the Alaska Native Settlement Trust Eligibility Act, and H.R. 43, the Alaska Native Village Municipal Lands Restoration Act of 2025. These bills previously passed the U.S. House of Representatives on February 4.”
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Congressman Nick Begich’s First Two Bills Pass Congress, Headed to the President's Desk
“WASHINGTON, D.C. – JUNE 20, 2025. – This week, Congressman Nick Begich (R-AK) celebrated the Senate's passage of H.R. 42, the Alaska Native Settlement Trust Eligibility Act, and H.R. 43, the Alaska Native Village Municipal Lands Restoration Act of 2025, marking a significant legislative victory for Alaska. The bills now head to the President’s desk to be signed into law.”
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Congressman Begich Highlights First 100 Days in Congress
“On day one after being sworn in, Congressman Begich introduced his first two pieces of legislation - H.R. 42, the Alaska Native Settlement Trust Eligibility Act, and H.R. 43, the Alaska Native Village Municipal Lands Restoration Act of 2025. These landmark bills restore equity and access for Alaska Native communities, securing long-overdue recognition and empowering local governance over ancestral lands.”
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Congressman Nick Begich Delivers First Annual Address to Alaska State Legislature
“H.R. 42 ensures they don’t lose critical assistance just for accepting what’s rightfully theirs.”
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ICYMI: Alaska Federation of Natives Thanks Congressman Begich for Advancing Crucial Legislation
“H.R. 42, the Alaska Native Settlement Trust Eligibility Act, and H.R. 43, the Alaska Native Village Municipal Lands Restoration Act of 2025 passed the U.S. House with strong bi-partisan support – a testament of Congressman Begich’s leadership in Congress.”
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Congressman Nick Begich’s First Two Bills of the 119th Pass the House
“WASHINGTON, D.C. – February 4, 2025 – The first two bills introduced by Congressman Nick Begich (R-AK) on his first day in office—H.R. 42, the Alaska Native Settlement Trust Eligibility Act, and H.R. 43, the Alaska Native Village Municipal Lands Restoration Act of 2025—were considered on the House floor today and passed under the rules of suspension.”
Read from 539 of 539 members' sites, releases since January 3, 2025, through October 7, 2026.
Press releases by organizations
No saved press release from these organizations names this law.
Read from 510 of 510 organizations' sites, releases since January 3, 2025, through October 7, 2026.
What it touches
Kind of law: New or changed rules. Budget effect: Changes payments to people.
Government
- Grants, benefits and subsidies
The economy
- No direct economic effect
Daily life
- Tribal and Alaska Native communities
- Household budget
Agencies it funds or directs
Dollar amounts:Not checked yetHow it passed
The House passed it by voice vote on February 4, 2025. A voice vote records no individual votes.
The Senate passed it by voice vote on June 18, 2025. A voice vote records no individual votes.
How each member votes
Both chambers passed this law without a recorded vote, so no individual votes exist. The House: passed by voice vote (no individual votes recorded). The Senate: passed by voice vote (no individual votes recorded).
Lobbying reports that name this bill
Confirmed from the official record3 saved lobbying reports name H.R. 42. The amount is what the report gives for the whole quarter: everything the registrant did for that client, all issues together. A linked name opens that organization’s page on this site.
| Registrant | Client | Amount for the whole quarter | Quarter | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAPITOL HILL POLICY GROUP LLC | CALISTA CORPORATION | $50,000.00reported as income | April to June 2026 | Open the report |
| BLANK ROME GOVERNMENT RELATIONS | OLD HARBOR NATIVE CORPORATION | $40,000.00reported as income | April to June 2026 | Open the report |
| BLANK ROME GOVERNMENT RELATIONS | SHEE ATIKA INC. | $40,000.00reported as income | April to June 2026 | Open the report |
See the lobbying page for H.R. 42
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Lobbying Disclosure Act reports, LDA.gov. This copy was read October 7, 2026 at 4:39 PM Eastern.
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