H.R. 2606 — what changed

changed This Act may be cited as the “Stigler Act Amendments of 2017”.2018”.

The first section of the Act of August 4, 1947 (61 Stat. 731, chapter 458), is amended—

“1.

changed “All “(a) All restrictions against alienation, conveyance, lease, mortgage, creation of liens, or other encumbrances upon all lands, including oil and gas or other mineral interests, in Oklahoma belonging to a lineal descendant by blood of an original enrollee whose name appears on the Final Indian Rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory, whether acquired by allotment, inheritance, devise, gift, purchase, exchange, partition, partition sale, or by purchase with restricted funds, of whatever degree of Indian blood, and whether enrolled or unenrolled, shall be and are hereby, extended until an Act of Congress determines otherwise, including, without limitation, those interests in the estate of a decedent Indian who died before the date of enactment of Stigler Act Amendments of 2017 that were, immediately prior to the decedent's death, subject to restrictions that had not, as of said date, been—otherwise.

changed “(1) “(b) The extension of restrictions described in subsection (a) shall include without limitation, those interests in the subject estate of a final order issued by an Oklahoma district court or a United States district court determining decedent Indian who died before the decedent's heirs or devisees or otherwise determining date of enactment of the ownership Stigler Act Amendments of said interests;2018—

changed “(2) conveyed “(1) if such interests were acquired by the decedent's undetermined heirs an heir or devisees devisee of one-half or more degree of Indian blood, as computed from the nearest enrolled lineal ancestors of Indian blood enrolled on the Final Rolls described in subsection (a), by deed approved final order issued by an Oklahoma district court; court or a United States district court determining the decedent’s heirs or devisees or otherwise determining the ownership of said interests before said date; or

changed “(3) conveyed by “(2) if such interests were, immediately prior to the decedent's undetermined heirs or devisees of less than one-half degree decedent’s death, subject to restrictions and had not, as of Indian blood with or without Oklahoma district court approval.said date, been—

added “(A) the subject of a final order issued by an Oklahoma district court or a United States district court determining the decedent's heirs or devisees or otherwise determining the ownership of said interests;

added “(B) conveyed by the decedent's undetermined heirs or devisees by deed approved by an Oklahoma district court; or

added “(C) conveyed by the decedent's undetermined heirs or devisees of less than one-half degree of Indian blood with or without Oklahoma district court approval.

“2.

added “(a) Except as provided in subsection (f), subsection (g), subsection (h), and subsection (i), no conveyance, including an oil and gas or mineral lease, of any interest in the restricted lands described in this section shall be valid unless approved in open court by the district court of the county in Oklahoma in which the land is situated;”

removed “(a) Except as provided in subsection (f), subsection (g), subsection (h), and subsection (i), no conveyance, including an oil and gas or mineral lease, of any interest in the restricted lands described in this section shall be valid unless approved in open court by the district court of the county in Oklahoma in which the land is situated.”

The Act of August 4, 1947 (61 Stat. 731, chapter 458), is amended—

The following are repealed: