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US SB643

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/20/2025

Primary Sponsor

Jeff Merkley

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Origin

Senate

119th Congress

AI Summary

  • Amends the Grand Ronde Reservation Act (Public Law 100-425) to establish a framework for hunting, fishing, trapping, and animal gathering rights of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon

  • Maintains the 1986 Grand Ronde Hunting and Fishing Agreement until replaced or amended by successor government-to-government agreements between the Tribe and the State of Oregon

  • Requires that any successor or amended agreements derive hunting, fishing, trapping, and animal gathering rights solely from the authority of the State of Oregon, not from treaty or aboriginal rights

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

  • Allows judicial review of the 1987 Consent Decree in U.S. District Court for Oregon on the merits, without the defenses of res judicata or collateral estoppel

Legislative Description

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.

Native Americans

Last Action

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

2/20/2025

Committee Referrals

Indian Affairs2/20/2025

Full Bill Text

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