CaliforniaTribal gaming: compact and amendment ratification.
What it does
Existing federal law, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988, provides for the negotiation and execution of tribal-state gaming compacts for the purpose of authorizing certain types of gaming on Indian lands within a state. The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to negotiate and conclude those compacts, subject to ratification by the Legislature. Existing law expressly ratifies a number of tribal-state gaming compacts, and amendments to tribal-state gaming compacts, between the State of California and specified Indian tribes.
More detail
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project, as defined, that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment, as defined, or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect.
This bill would ratify amendments between the State of California and the Big Sandy Rancheria of Western Mono Indians of California, executed on December 12, 2024, and February 12, 2025, to extend the terms of the existing tribal-state gaming compact, executed on September 10, 1999. The bill would also ratify a new tribal-state gaming compact entered into between the State of California and the Big Sandy Rancheria of Western Mono Indians of California. The bill would provide that, in deference to tribal sovereignty, certain actions related to these compacts are not projects for the purposes of CEQA.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed Assembly
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2025
- May 28Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 3, Statutes of 2025.Latest
- May 28Approved by the Governor Gavin Newsom.Became Law
- May 23Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.To Governor
- May 20In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.Minor
- Vote recorded SB 49 Grove Third Reading Urgency By Tangipa. Result: pass.Lower
- May 19Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1611.) Ordered to the Senate.Passed Assembly
- May 12Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- May 8Ordered to second reading.Minor
- Mar 17In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.Minor
- Vote recorded 3rd Reading SB49 Grove et al. Urgency Clause. Result: pass.Upper
- Mar 17Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 385.) Ordered to the Assembly.Passed Senate
- Feb 26Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Feb 25Ordered to second reading.Minor
- Feb 25Withdrawn from committee.Major
- Feb 20From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.Major
- Feb 19Referred to Com. on RLS.Minor
- Jan 6Read first time.Minor
- 2024
- Dec 17From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 16.
- Dec 16Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.Introduced