Ninth Osage Nation Congress
2025 HunKah Session
April 22, 2025
10:00 a.m.
DAY 19 AGENDA
1. Call to Order
2. Prayer
3. Roll Call
4. Approval of the Journal dated 4/21/2025
5. Reports of Select Committees
6. Reports of Standing Committees
7. Introduction of Bills and/or Resolutions
8. Bills and Resolutions on First Reading
a. ONCA 25-77, An Act to amend the Osage Nation Election Code; and to establish an alternate effective date. (Keene)
b. ONCA 25-78, An Act to provide a supplemental appropriation to the Pawhuska Village Committee Funds in the amount of ten thousand dollars ($10,000); and to establish an alternate effective date. (Revard)
c. ONCR 25-14, A Resolution to request the placement of fee lands into trust by the Secretary of the Interior. (BigHorse)
9. Bills and Resolutions on Third Reading
a. ONCA 25-42, An Act to amend the Osage Nation Boards Act at 15 ONC § 5-103 to make the terms of Board members consistent with the constitutional amendment adopted in 2024 regarding confirmations; to amend 15 ONC § 5-106 to remove the compensation resolution being set every odd year and to remove the requirement that boards of the same designation receive the same compensation; and to establish an alternate effective date. (Revard)
b. ONCA 25-54, An Act to authorize and appropriate one hundred twenty five thousand dollars ($125,000) to Financial Assistance to purchase headstones for unmarked graves; and to establish an alternate effective date. (Goodfox)
c. ONCA 25-57, An Act to amend ONCA 24-73 to provide appropriation modifications and supplemental appropriations to the Executive Branch in the amount of eight hundred seventy thousand seven hundred fifty eight dollars ($870,758); and to establish an alternate effective date. (Revard)
d. ONCA 25-60, An Act to amend ONCA 22-81 to increase the appropriation of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds for the expansion of the Chapel in the Grayhorse Indian Village in the amount of forty nine thousand five hundred thirty one dollars ($49,531); and to establish an alternate effective date. (Hamilton)
e. ONCA 25-61, An Act to authorize and appropriate the amount of two hundred fifty seven thousand three hundred eighty nine dollars ($257,389) of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to the Executive Branch for water and sewer infrastructure repairs, improvements, or upgrades for the Pawhuska Village and community; and to establish an alternate effective date.(Hamilton)
f. ONCA 25-62, An Act to amend ONCA 21-58 to decrease the appropriation to the Executive Branch of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds for an adult male and female Primary Residential Treatment (PRT) facility, an adolescent male and female PRT, a transitional living facility, and a counseling center with administrative and counseling offices in the amount of three hundred fifty eight thousand one hundred fifty dollars ($358,150); and to establish an alternate effective date. (Hamilton)
g. ONCA 25-67, An Act to require the Osage Nation to provide reasonable accommodations to pregnant women in employment; to prohibit retaliation for requesting or utilizing a reasonable accommodation; and to establish an alternate effective date. (Potts)
h. ONCA 25-75, An Act to require the plan for expenditure of federal Roads funds to be approved by the Osage Nation Congress; and to establish an alternate effective date. (Potts)
i. ONCA 25-76, An Act to require the self-governance Multi-Year Funding Agreement (MYFA) to be approved by the Osage Nation Congress; and to establish an alternate effective date. (Revard)
j. ONCR 25-10, A Resolution to authorize and adopt the Amended Articles of Incorporation for the nonprofit corporation, Manzeska Ota Tsi (Place to Borrow Money), formed under the Osage Nation Nonprofit Corporation Code. (Revard)
k. ONCR 25-11, A Resolution to approve the amended bylaws of the Manzeska Ota Tsi (Place to Borrow Money) public purpose corporation in accordance with the Articles of Incorporation. (Revard)
10. Motions and Notices
a. Confirmation of Executive Appointee, Teresa Lamsam, to the Osage Nation Editorial Board for a term of 3 years.
b. Confirmation of Executive Appointee, Corbin Dewitt, to the Osage Nation Election Board for a term of 3 years.
c. Government Operations Meeting IFS to 2:00 p.m.
11. Adjournment