Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas Equal and Fair Opportunity Settlement Act

This bill would allow the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas to conduct gaming activities on its tribal lands by removing a previous federal restriction that required the Tribe to follow Texas state gambling laws. In exchange for this expanded authority, the Tribe would be required to drop all pending legal claims regarding their ancestral lands and would be barred from filing future lawsuits against the United States, the State of Texas, or private landowners concerning those land rights. For citizens, the bill’s primary impact would be the potential expansion of tribal gaming facilities in the region and the permanent legal resolution of long-standing land ownership disputes between the Tribe and the government.