---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 1405"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "1405"
heading: "Effective date of plan; joint resolution of disapproval"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/1405"
units:
  - "Chapter 16 — Distribution of Judgment Funds"
---

# §1405. Effective date of plan; joint resolution of disapproval

- (a) **Original plan—** The plan prepared by the [Secretary](/usc/25/5130.md?p=1) shall become effective, and he shall take immediate action to implement the plan for the use or distribution of such judgment funds, at the end of the sixty-day period (excluding days on which either the House of Representatives or the Senate is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three calendar days to a day certain) beginning on the day such plan is submitted to the Congress, unless during such sixty-day period a joint resolution is enacted disapproving such plans.
- (b) **Proposed legislation and report to Congress following Congressional disapproval—** Within thirty calendar days after the date of enactment of a joint resolution disapproving a plan, the [Secretary](/usc/25/5130.md?p=1) shall submit to the Congress proposed legislation, together with a report thereon, authorizing use or distribution of such funds.
- (c) **Successor plan previously withdrawn or amended prior to Congressional action; consent to amendments—** Within the sixty-day period and before the adoption of any resolution disapproving a plan, the [Secretary](/usc/25/5130.md?p=1) may withdraw or amend such plan: Provided, That any amendments affecting the division of an award between two or more beneficiary entities shall be subject to the consent of these entities as provided in [section 1402(d) of this title](/usc/25/1402.md?p=d). Any such amended plan shall become valid at the end of a sixty-day period beginning on the day such amendment is submitted to the Congress, unless during such sixty-day period, a joint resolution is enacted disapproving such plan as amended.
- (d) **Resubmission of successor plan within prescribed period following withdrawal of plan—** Once a plan is withdrawn before the end of a sixty-day period, the [Secretary](/usc/25/5130.md?p=1) has until the expiration of the original one-year deadline to resubmit a plan to Congress. Such a plan shall become valid at the end of a sixty-day period beginning on the day such new plan is submitted to the Congress, unless during such sixty-day period, a joint resolution is enacted disapproving such plan.
- (e) **Recomputation of sixty-day period from date of introduction of joint resolution of disapproval; reextension restriction—** Upon the introduction of the first such resolution of disapproval in either the House of Representatives or the Senate, the sixty-day period shall be recomputed from the date of such introduction and shall not again be extended.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–134, § 5, Oct. 19, 1973, 87 Stat. 468; Pub. L. 97–458, § 3, Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2513.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1983—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 97–458, § 3(a), substituted “unless during such sixty-day period a joint resolution is enacted” for “unless during such sixty-day period either House adopts a resolution disapproving such plans”.

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 97–458, § 3(b), substituted “date of enactment of a joint resolution disapproving a plan” for “date of adoption of a resolution disapproving a plan”.

Subsecs. (c) to (e). Pub. L. 97–458, § 3(c), added subsecs. (c) to (e).