Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act of 2025
- Last Action
- 7/31/2025
Actions
- 2025-07-31Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 139.
- 2025-07-31Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Murkowski without amendment. With written report No. 119-54.
- 2025-07-31Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Murkowski without amendment. With written report No. 119-54.
- 2025-03-05Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
- 2025-02-26Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
- 2025-02-26Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2025-02-26 (00)
Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act of 2025
This bill establishes the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the United States within the legislative branch and sets forth its powers, duties, and membership.
Among other duties, the commission must investigate the impacts and ongoing effects of the Indian Boarding School Policies (federal policies under which American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children were forcibly removed from their family homes and placed in boarding schools).
Further, the commission must develop recommendations on ways to (1) protect unmarked graves and accompanying land protections; (2) support repatriation and identify the tribal nations from which children were taken; and (3) discontinue the removal of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children from their families and tribal communities by state social service departments, foster care agencies, and adoption agencies.
Cosponsors (20)
- Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
- Brian Schatz (D-HI)
- John Hickenlooper (D-CO)
- Tina Smith (D-MN)
- Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)
- Patty Murray (D-WA)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Michael Bennet (D-CO)
- Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
- Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
- Jacky Rosen (D-NV)
- Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
- Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
- Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Cory Booker (D-NJ)
- Ben Luján (D-NM)
- Mazie Hirono (D-HI)
- Edward Markey (D-MA)
- Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
Subjects
- Adoption and foster care
- Advisory bodies
- Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
- Child care and development
- Child safety and welfare
- Elementary and secondary education
- Family relationships
- Federal-Indian relations
- Hawaii
- Historical and cultural resources
- Human rights
- Indian social and development programs
- Language arts
- Minority education
- Public participation and lobbying
- Racial and ethnic relations
- Religion
- Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
- U.S. history
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