US HB1499

Amends the Grand Ronde Reservation Act (Public Law 100-425) to establish that the 1986 Grand Ronde Hunting and Fishing Agreement remains in effect until replaced by successor government-to-government agreements between the Confederated Tribes and the State of Oregon

Allows the Tribe and Oregon to amend existing or create new agreements on hunting, fishing, trapping, and animal gathering rights by mutual consent

Prohibits successor agreements from affecting ancestral, aboriginal, treaty, or other rights of the Grand Ronde Community or any other Indian Tribe, and bars their use in court to modify tribal treaty rights

Specifies that any hunting, fishing, trapping, and animal gathering rights in future agreements derive solely from State of Oregon authority, not federal or treaty sources

Permits federal court review of challenges to the 1987 Consent Decree on the merits, bypassing res judicata and collateral estoppel defenses