119-hr1499

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1499 Introduced in House

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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:

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SEC. 2. HUNTING, FISHING, TRAPPING, AND ANIMAL GATHERING.

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    (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).
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    (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--
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        (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
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            (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.
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            (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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