H.R. 1499 — 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 section revises Section 2 of the Grand Ronde Reservation Act (P.L. 100-425) to address hunting, fishing, trapping, and animal gathering rights of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon. It defines key terms—including the 1986 Grand Ronde Hunting and Fishing Agreement (entered December 2, 1986), the 1987 Consent Decree (entered January 12, 1987, by the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon), and "Indian tribe" (as defined in 25 U.S.C. 5304)—and maintains the 1986 Agreement in effect until replaced or amended by successor government-to-government agreements between the Tribe and the State of Oregon. Such successor or amended agreements (1) may not affirm, recognize, establish, expand, adjudicate, waive, limit, abrogate, or otherwise affect the Tribe's or any other Indian tribe's ancestral, aboriginal, treaty, statutory, equitable, or other rights; (2) may not limit Oregon from entering separate agreements with other tribes; (3) may not be used in court to enlarge, confirm, adjudicate, affect, or modify any treaty or other tribal right; and (4) must derive the Tribe's rights solely from Oregon's authority. The section further directs the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon to review any action to rescind, overturn, modify, or provide relief from the Consent Decree on the merits without regard to res judicata or collateral estoppel and states that neither the section nor any successor agreement affects any Indian tribe's rights or claims.