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.
Sponsored By: Representative Salinas, Andrea [D-OR-6]
Introduced
Summary
Clarifies and constrains how the Grand Ronde Tribe's hunting, fishing, trapping, and gathering rights are treated in future state agreements. The bill would define key terms and keep the existing Grand Ronde Hunting and Fishing Agreement in effect until a government-to-government successor is reached by mutual consent.
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- Grand Ronde members: Would prevent any successor or amended agreement from altering ancestral, treaty, statutory, or equitable rights of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon.
- State of Oregon: Would allow the State to enter successor or separate agreements with tribes but says any rights in a successor agreement would derive solely from the State's authority.
- Other Indian Tribes: Would bar using a successor or amended agreement in civil or criminal court to enlarge, confirm, adjudicate, affect, or modify any tribe's treaty or other rights.
- Federal courts and litigants: Would require the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon to review on the merits actions seeking to rescind, overturn, modify, or obtain federal relief from the Consent Decree without regard to res judicata or collateral estoppel.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 0 costs, 2 mixed.
Court review and key Grand Ronde definitions
If enacted, the bill would define key terms. It would define the 1987 federal Consent Decree and the 1986 Grand Ronde Hunting and Fishing Agreement, and use the federal meaning of "Indian Tribe." It would also require the U.S. District Court in Oregon to hear any case to undo or change the Consent Decree on the merits, without using res judicata or collateral estoppel to dismiss it. This would affect parties who seek to change that decree.
New rules for Grand Ronde hunting agreements
If enacted, the current Grand Ronde Hunting and Fishing Agreement would stay in place until the Tribe and Oregon sign a new agreement. They could amend or replace it by mutual consent. Any new or amended agreement could not change or be used to change treaty, ancestral, or other tribal rights. It would not stop Oregon from making separate wildlife agreements with other Tribes in the same area. For agreements made after enactment, any hunting, fishing, trapping, or gathering rights in those agreements would come only from Oregon’s authority. The bill also says it would not decide or affect any tribe’s treaty or sovereign claims.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Salinas, Andrea [D-OR-6]
OR • D
Cosponsors
Rep. Bynum, Janelle S. [D-OR-5]
OR • D
Sponsored 2/21/2025
Bonamici
OR • D
Sponsored 2/21/2025
Rep. Hoyle, Val T. [D-OR-4]
OR • D
Sponsored 2/21/2025
Rep. Dexter, Maxine [D-OR-3]
OR • D
Sponsored 8/5/2025
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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