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.

Key Points

• This bill allows the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde and the State of Oregon to create new agreements for hunting, fishing, and gathering. Currently, these activities are controlled by a strict legal deal made in the 1980s that many feel is outdated.
• The change lets the tribe and the state work together as equals to update their rules. Instead of being stuck with a 40-year-old contract, they can negotiate new terms that better reflect how people live and manage natural resources today.
• The bill includes protections to make sure these new agreements don't interfere with the rights of other nearby tribes. It also clarifies that any new hunting or fishing rights the tribe gets through these deals would come from the state of Oregon's authority, rather than from older federal treaties.
• Finally, the bill allows a federal court to review old legal decisions from 1987. In the past, certain legal rules prevented the court from looking at these old cases again, but this bill would let a judge reconsider the merits of the original agreement to see if it should be changed or ended.

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