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 amendment to the tribal-state gaming compact entered into between the State of California and the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of California. The bill would provide that, in deference to tribal sovereignty, certain actions related to this amended compact 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 Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2025
- Oct 1Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 202, Statutes of 2025.Latest
- Oct 1Approved by the Governor Gavin Newsom.Became Law
- Sep 23Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.To Governor
- Sep 12
- Vote recorded AB 1527 Soria Concurrence - Urgency Added. Result: pass.Lower
- Sep 11Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3332.).Major
- Sep 10In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- Vote recorded 3rd Reading AB1527 Soria et al. By Hurtado Urgency Clause. Result: pass.Upper
- Sep 10Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2795.).Passed Senate
- Aug 27Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Aug 26Ordered to second reading.Minor
- Aug 26Withdrawn from committee.Major
- Jun 23From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O.Major
- May 14Referred to Com. on G.O.Minor
- May 1In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.Minor
- Vote recorded AB 1527 Governmental Organization Consent Calendar Second Day. Result: pass.Lower
- May 1Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1388.)Passed Assembly
- Apr 28Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.Minor
- Apr 24From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 22. Noes 0.) (April 23).Minor
- Apr 23
- Vote recorded Do pass. To Consent Calendar. Result: pass.Lower
- Mar 24Referred to Com. on G.O.Minor
- Mar 19From printer. May be heard in committee April 18.
- Mar 18Read first time. To print.Introduced