HR 1499

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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

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.”. <all>