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This bill updates the rules for hunting, fishing, trapping, and gathering animals for the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community in Oregon. It says the current agreement between the tribe and the State of Oregon will stay in place unless it is replaced or changed by a new agreement worked out between the two governments. The bill also makes clear that any future changes must be made by mutual consent, and that these agreements cannot be used to change the legal rights of the tribe or any other Indian tribe. It also says that, in future court cases about the old federal court order tied to this issue, the court must look at the case directly instead of refusing to hear it because of earlier rulings. Overall, the bill is meant to keep the current agreement workable while protecting other tribes’ rights from being affected by it.
- The existing hunting and fishing agreement would continue unless Oregon and the Grand Ronde Tribe agree to replace, amend, or modify it.
- Any new agreement or update would have to be approved by both the tribe and the State of Oregon.
- The bill says these agreements cannot be used to expand, reduce, or otherwise change the rights of the Grand Ronde Tribe or any other Indian tribe.
- It also says that any hunting, fishing, trapping, and gathering rights in future agreements would come only from Oregon’s authority, and not from the agreement itself.
Official Summaries
This bill provides a process by which the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and Oregon may negotiate to amend or replace the existing agreement defining the tribe's hunting, fishing, trapping, and animal gathering rights.
The current agreement, which was made effective by a January 12, 1987, consent decree by the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, serves as the exclusive and final determination of the tribe's hunting, fishing, trapping, and gathering rights. This bill instead allows a December 2, 1986, agreement between the United States, Oregon, and the tribe (known as the Grand Ronde Hunting and Fishing Agreement) to define the tribe's rights until and unless it is amended or replaced upon mutual agreement of the tribe and Oregon.
The bill allows the tribe and Oregon to return to the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon to request the modification or termination of the January 12, 1987, consent decree.
The bill prohibits a new or amended agreement from (1) affecting the other rights of the tribe or any other Indian tribe, (2) limiting Oregon from entering into separate agreements with other tribes to address the authority to take species within the geographic scope of the agreement, or (3) being used in a civil or criminal action to modify any treaty or other right of a tribe.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1499 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1499
To amend the Grand Ronde Reservation Act to address the hunting,
fishing, trapping, and animal gathering rights of the Confederated
Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 21, 2025
Ms. Salinas (for herself, Ms. Bynum, Ms. Bonamici, and Ms. Hoyle of
Oregon) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Natural Resources
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A BILL
To amend the Grand Ronde Reservation Act to address the hunting,
fishing, trapping, and animal gathering rights of the Confederated
Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. GRAND RONDE RESERVATION ACT AMENDMENT.
Section 2 of Public Law 100-425 (commonly known as the ``Grand
Ronde Reservation Act'') (102 Stat. 1595) is amended to read as
follows:
``SEC. 2. HUNTING, FISHING, TRAPPING, AND ANIMAL GATHERING.
``(a) Definitions.--In this section:
``(1) Consent decree.--The term `Consent Decree' means the
final judgment and decree of the United States District Court
for the District of Oregon, in the action entitled
`Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon
against the State of Oregon', entered on January 12, 1987.
``(2) Grand ronde hunting and fishing agreement.--The term
`Grand Ronde Hunting and Fishing Agreement' means the agreement
entitled `Agreement Among the State of Oregon, the United
States of America and the Confederated Tribes of the Grand
Ronde Community of Oregon to Permanently Define Tribal Hunting,
Fishing, Trapping, and Animal Gathering Rights of the Tribe and
its Members' and entered into by the United States on December
2, 1986.
``(3) Indian tribe.--The term `Indian Tribe' has the
meaning given the term in section 4 of the Indian Self-
Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304).
``(b) Hunting, Fishing, Trapping, and Animal Gathering
Agreements.--
``(1) In general.--The Grand Ronde Hunting and Fishing
Agreement shall remain in effect until and unless replaced,
amended, or otherwise modified by 1 or more successor
government-to-government agreements between the Confederated
Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community and the State of Oregon
relating to the hunting, fishing, trapping, and animal
gathering rights of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde
Community.
``(2) Amendments.--The Grand Ronde Hunting and Fishing
Agreement or any successor agreement entered into under
paragraph (1) may be amended from time to time by mutual
consent of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community
and the State of Oregon.
``(3) Contents of new agreement or future amendments.--No
successor agreement or amended agreement entered into under
paragraph (1) shall--
``(A) purport to affirm, recognize, establish,
expand, adjudicate, waive, limit, abrogate or otherwise
affect the ancestral, aboriginal, treaty, statutory,
equitable, or other applicable rights of the
Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community or any
other Indian Tribe;
``(B) limit the State of Oregon from entering into
separate agreements with other Indian Tribes that
address the authority to take species within the
geographic scope of the agreement; or
``(C) be used in a civil or criminal action in a
court of competent jurisdiction to enlarge, confirm,
adjudicate, affect, or modify any treaty or other right
of an Indian Tribe.
``(4) Source of authority.--All hunting, fishing, trapping,
and animal gathering rights of the Confederated Tribes of the
Grand Ronde Community in any successor agreement or amended
agreement entered into under paragraph (1) after the date of
enactment of this paragraph shall derive solely from the
authority of the State of Oregon.
``(c) Judicial Review.--In any action brought in the United States
District Court for the District of Oregon to rescind, overturn, modify,
or provide relief under Federal law from the Consent Decree, the United
States District Court for the District of Oregon shall review the
application of the parties on the merits without regard to the defense
of res judicata or collateral estoppel.
``(d) Effect.--Nothing in this section, or in any successor
agreement or amended agreement entered into under paragraph (1), shall
have the force or effect of determining, defining, affirming,
recognizing, abrogating, limiting, or affecting the rights or claims of
any Indian Tribe, including any treaty and other sovereign rights.''.
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