A bill that would finally formalize a 2007 agreement between the Tule River Indian Tribe and several downstream agricultural users advanced to the Senate earlier this month.  The “Tule River Tribe Reserved Water Rights Settlement Act of 2025,” introduced by Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff (both D-California), advanced from the Committee on Indian Affairs and will be heard on the Senate floor.  If passed, the bill would accomplish several tasks, including securing an annual supply of 5,828 acre feet of surface water from the South Fork of the Tule River for the reservation’s domestic water system, which serves more than 400 homes and all of its administration buildings.