# 119-hr-8546: Pechanga Band of Indians Water Rights Settlement Technical Amendments Act

119-hr-8546, Pechanga Band of Indians Water Rights Settlement Technical Amendments Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Issa, Darrell [R-CA-48] (R-CA); status in_committee; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-09-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-8546
- Congress: 119
- Title: Pechanga Band of Indians Water Rights Settlement Technical Amendments Act
- Status: in_committee
- Introduced: 2026-04-28
- Sponsor: Rep. Issa, Darrell [R-CA-48] (R-CA)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Native Americans
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-09-21

## Summary

**Expands the Pechanga Reservation and broadens water-quality funding rules.** It adds specific historic and contiguous trust lands and allows the Pechanga Water Quality Account to support a wider set of activities for water-quality problems, while enabling technical updates to the settlement without changing existing water rights. - Pechanga Band members and land records: Redefines the term "Reservation" in Section 3403(33) of P.L. 114-322 to include lands set aside by two historic Executive orders, eight later additions, contiguous trust land held on the enforceability date, and contiguous Santa Margarita River Watershed parcels placed into trust after that date. This expands which parcels count as Reservation land. - Water managers and local projects: Replaces narrow language about groundwater desalination in the Wolf Valley Basin with broader language that permits activities to address water quality issues there, expanding what the Pechanga Water Quality Account may fund. - Tribal and federal administrators: Defines the Pechanga Settlement Agreement as amended to reflect these changes, authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to promptly execute those amendments, and clarifies that the amendments do not change any condition precedent, the prior finding that those conditions were satisfied, or any existing water right.

## Cosponsors (1)

- Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-41] (R-CA), 2026-04-28T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Change Pechanga reservation and water rules: benefit, low. If enacted, this bill would change which lands count as the Pechanga Reservation. It would add lands set aside by Executive Orders dated June 27, 1882 and January 9, 1907, and lands added on August 29, 1893; March 11, 1907; February 21, 1931; May 25, 1931; August 12, 1971; August 8, 1988; November…

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## Sources
- [119-hr-8546 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8546)

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- [119-hr-471: Fix Our Forests Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-471)
- [119-hr-4016: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4016)
- [119-hr-2709: Save Our Sequoias Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2709)
- [119-hr-4669: FEMA Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4669)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-8546 (as of 2026-09-21).