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.

This bill sets up a way for the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the state of Oregon to work together to change or replace an existing agreement about the tribe's rights to hunt, fish, trap, and gather animals. Right now, those rights are locked in by a 1987 court order, but this bill would allow a 1986 agreement to define the tribe's rights instead, and it lets both sides go back to court to change or end that court order. The bill also makes clear that any new or changed agreement cannot affect the rights of other tribes, cannot stop Oregon from making separate deals with other tribes, and cannot be used in court to change any tribe's treaty rights.

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