Description:
S. 3273 would direct the Department of the Interior (DOI) to take into trust about 2,560 acres of land for the benefit of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians in Riverside County, California. The act also would prohibit certain types of gaming on those lands. Using information provided by DOI, CBO estimates that the administrative costs to implement S. 3273 would be insignificant; such spending would be subject to the availability of appropriated funds. S. 3273 would impose an intergovernmental mandate as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA). The bill would prohibit state and local governments from taxing land taken into trust for the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. Information from Riverside County about their tax rate and the assessed value of the proposed trust land indicates that those foregone revenues would total less than $10,000 annually, which is far below the annual threshold established in UMRA ($85 million in 2021, adjusted annually for inflation). The bill contains no private-sector mandates.
