The document says “may be cited as”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 1 in the PDF
What the document says
“This Act may be cited as the "Alaska Native Settlement Trust Eligibility Act".”
The Act names itself the Alaska Native Settlement Trust Eligibility Act. That name is used once more in the law, inside the text section 2 inserts into the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, where it fixes the start of a 5 year period.
What the document actually says
“This Act may be cited as the "Alaska Native Settlement Trust Eligibility Act".”
That sentence, in plain words
This law has a short name. People can use that name in place of the long one.
What this is about
A law often gives itself a short name. Then people can talk about it in a few words. This part does that and nothing more.
No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.
The naming provision, which is the whole of the section.
Nothing. The section contains only the short title. The approval line and the legislative history the Government Publishing Office prints after the last section are held out of the indexed text.
The section says what the Act may be called. It does not say what the Act does, and it carries no other provision.
