I 
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. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 21, 2025 
Ms. SALINAS (for herself, Ms. BYNUM, Ms. BONAMICI, and Ms. HOYLE of Or-
egon) 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 Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. GRAND RONDE RESERVATION ACT AMEND-
MENT. 
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 GATH-
ERING. 
‘‘(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 Or-
egon, 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 Perma-
nently 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.— 
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‘‘(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 ani-
mal gathering rights of the Confederated Tribes of 
the Grand Ronde Community. 
‘‘(2) AMENDMENTS.—The Grand Ronde Hunt-
ing and Fishing Agreement or any successor agree-
ment entered into under paragraph (1) may be 
amended from time to time by mutual consent of the 
Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Commu-
nity and the State of Oregon. 
‘‘(3) CONTENTS OF NEW AGREEMENT OR FU-
TURE
AMENDMENTS.—No successor agreement or 
amended agreement entered into under paragraph 
(1) shall— 
‘‘(A) purport to affirm, recognize, estab-
lish, 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; 
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‘‘(B) limit the State of Oregon from enter-
ing into separate agreements with other Indian 
Tribes that address the authority to take spe-
cies within the geographic scope of the agree-
ment; 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 Commu-
nity in any successor agreement or amended agree-
ment 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 Or-
egon 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 
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under paragraph (1), shall have the force or effect of de-
termining, defining, affirming, recognizing, abrogating, 
limiting, or affecting the rights or claims of any Indian 
Tribe, including any treaty and other sovereign rights.’’. 
Æ 
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