# 119-hr-7325: Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act of 2026 119-hr-7325, Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act of 2026, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Cole, Tom [R-OK-4] (R-OK); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-07). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7325 - As of: 2026-10-07 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: 119-hr-7325 - Congress: 119 - Title: Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act of 2026 - Status: introduced - Introduced: 2026-02-03 - Sponsor: Rep. Cole, Tom [R-OK-4] (R-OK) - Cosponsors: 21 - Policy area: Native Americans - Touches household money: yes - Last recorded action: 2026-10-07 ## Summary **Investigate and address harms from Indian boarding school policies.** This bill would create a Truth and Healing Commission to document histories, center survivors, recommend federal action, and promote culturally informed healing. - Survivors and families would have guaranteed trauma‑informed, culturally appropriate convenings with access to support services and private spaces. A 15‑member Survivors Truth and Healing Subcommittee would help design those protocols and advise the Commission. - Tribal communities and descendants would get coordinated efforts to locate, document, and preserve burial sites and interment records. The bill clarifies that the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act applies to boarding‑school cultural items and allows reburial and co‑stewardship on Federal land when agreed. - Federal coordination and accountability increase through a 19‑member Native American advisory committee, a 20‑member Federal and Religious advisory committee, and required annual, initial, and final reports. Secretaries of Interior, Education, Defense, and Health and Human Services must respond in writing to final recommendations. *Would authorize $90.0 million to carry out the Commission and related activities.* ## Cosponsors (21) - Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4] (D-WI), 2026-10-05T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Davids, Sharice [D-KS-3] (D-KS), 2026-02-03T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Ciscomani, Juan [R-AZ-6] (R-AZ), 2026-02-04T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Fleischmann, Charles J. "Chuck" [R-TN-3] (R-TN), 2026-02-04T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Newhouse, Dan [R-WA-4] (R-WA), 2026-02-04T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Bergman, Jack [R-MI-1] (R-MI), 2026-02-04T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Langworthy, Nicholas A. [R-NY-23] (R-NY), 2026-02-04T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2] (R-NE), 2026-02-04T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Yakym, Rudy [R-IN-2] (R-IN), 2026-02-09T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Fine, Randy [R-FL-6] (R-FL), 2026-02-10T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Houchin, Erin [R-IN-9] (R-IN), 2026-02-20T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Kiley, Kevin [I-CA-3] (I-CA), 2026-02-23T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Ellzey, Jake [R-TX-6] (R-TX), 2026-03-03T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Rutherford, John H. [R-FL-5] (R-FL), 2026-03-03T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Moolenaar, John R. [R-MI-2] (R-MI), 2026-03-18T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Suozzi, Thomas R. [D-NY-3] (D-NY), 2026-04-14T00:00:00.000Z - Del. Moylan, James C. [R-GU-At Large] (R-GU), 2026-04-14T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Mann, Tracey [R-KS-1] (R-KS), 2026-05-04T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Gonzalez, Vicente [D-TX-34] (D-TX), 2026-07-20T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Vasquez, Gabe [D-NM-2] (D-NM), 2026-08-31T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Pingree, Chellie [D-ME-1] (D-ME), 2026-08-31T00:00:00.000Z ## Provisions PRIA read - Investigate boarding schools and burials: benefit, medium. If enacted, the Commission would investigate Indian boarding school policies and their social, cultural, economic, emotional, and physical effects. It would hold public and private, trauma-informed hearings and regional convenings, including at least one in each of the 12 Bureau of Indian Affairs r… - New Truth and Healing Commission: benefit, medium. If enacted, this bill would create a Truth and Healing Commission in the legislative branch. It would authorize $90,000,000 to carry out the Commission's work. The Commission could accept gifts, make contracts, and approve a spending plan with a 3/5 vote. The General Services Administration could p… - Pay and protections for commission members: benefit, low. If enacted, Commission members would be paid at a daily rate equal to the GS-5 annual rate for up to 10 days per month and get travel and per diem. Members of the Native American advisory committee would get a GS-7, step 1 daily rate up to 14 days per month. Survivors subcommittee members would get… - Repatriation and cemetery stewardship rules: benefit, low. If enacted, the bill would say that NAGPRA applies to cultural items tied to Indian boarding schools regardless of a prior agency interpretation. Federal agencies would be allowed to permit reburial of repatriated items on Federal land if the parties agree. Agencies could enter co-stewardship agree… - Tribal nominations and appointment timing: benefit, low. If enacted, tribes and Native Hawaiian groups would have 90 days after enactment to submit nominations. The Secretary of the Interior would send the nominee list to Congress within 7 days after that deadline. Commissioners must be appointed no later than 180 days after enactment. The Commission wou… - Certain advisory records exempt from FOIA: cost, low. If enacted, records and communications held by the Federal and Religious Truth and Healing Advisory Committee would be exempt from parts of the Privacy Act and would not have to be disclosed under a FOIA exemption cited in the bill. This would limit public access to those committee records. - No private lawsuits under this Act: cost, low. If enacted, nothing in the Act would create a private right to sue. Individuals could not bring administrative or judicial claims under this Act's provisions. - Advisory groups exempt from FACA: mixed, low. If enacted, the Commission and three named advisory groups (the Survivors Subcommittee, the Native American advisory committee, and the Federal and Religious advisory committee) would be exempt from the Federal Advisory Committee Act. That means some FACA requirements on meetings, membership, and f… ## Related bills - 119-hr-7148: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 - 119-hr-842: Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act - 119-hr-3514: Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 2025 - 119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act - 119-hr-1502: North Platte Canteen Congressional Gold Medal Act - 119-hr-452: Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal Act ## Sources - [119-hr-7325 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7325) ## Related - [119-hr-7148: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7148) - [119-hr-842: Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage A…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-842) - [119-hr-3514: Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3514) - [119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1262) - [119-hr-1502: North Platte Canteen Congressional Gold Medal Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1502) - [119-hr-452: Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-452) - [All bills in Congress](https://policyrisk.com/legislation) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7325 (as of 2026-10-07).