DELEGATION'S TRIBAL TRUST LAND HOMEOWNERSHIP ACT SIGNED INTO LAW

Washington, May 6 -- Representative Dusty Johnson issued the following press release:

U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) today issued the following statements after their Tribal Trust Land Homeownership Act was signed into law by President Trump. The bipartisan legislation will accelerate the review and processing of mortgages on trust land by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA).

"For years, affordable housing opportunities on tribal trust land have been hard to come by in South Dakota and across the nation due in part to the BIA's challenging mortgage approval process," said Thune. "With the enactment of our legislation, this mortgage approval process will now be expedited, encoura...