CaliforniaTribal gaming: compact 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 the tribal-state gaming compact entered into between the State of California and the Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria, the first amendment to the compact between the State of California and the Pinoleville Pomo Nation, California, and the first amendment to the compact between the State of California and the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation. 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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- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed Assembly
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2025
- Oct 1Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 244, Statutes of 2025.Latest
- Oct 1Approved by the Governor Gavin Newsom.Became Law
- Sep 22Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.To Governor
- Sep 11Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2877.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.Major
- Vote recorded Unfinished Business SB864 Padilla et al. Urgency Clause Concurrence. Result: pass.Upper
- Sep 11Urgency clause adopted.Major
- Sep 9In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- Vote recorded SB 864 Padilla Third Reading Urgency By Ramos. Result: pass.Lower
- Sep 9Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3068.) Ordered to the Senate.Passed Assembly
- Sep 3Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Sep 3Read third time and amended.Major
- Aug 19Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Aug 19From inactive file.
- Aug 18Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry.
- Jul 10Ordered to inactive file.
- Jul 10From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Garcia.
- Jul 3Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.Minor
- Jul 2From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 2).Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. To Consent Calendar. Result: pass.Lower
- Jun 26From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 22. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Jun 25
- Vote recorded Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Result: pass.Lower
- May 19Referred to Com. on G.O.Minor
- May 8In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.Minor
- Vote recorded Consent Calendar 2nd SB864 G.O. Result: pass.Upper
- May 8Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1052.) Ordered to the Assembly.Passed Senate
- May 6Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.Minor
- May 5From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar.Minor
- Apr 25Set for hearing May 5.
- Apr 22From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0. Page 831.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 8Set for hearing April 22.
- Apr 2Referred to Com. on G.O.Minor
- Mar 21From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 20.
- Mar 20Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.Introduced