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 second amendment to the tribal-state gaming compact entered into between the State of California and the Yurok Tribe of the Yurok Reservation, California, executed on December 18, 2025, to extend the terms of the tribal-state gaming compact. 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
- 2026
- May 26Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 9, Statutes of 2026.Latest
- May 26Approved by the Governor Gavin Newsom.Became Law
- May 13Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.To Governor
- May 7Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 4956.).Major
- Vote recorded AB 1389 Blanca Rubio Concurrence - Urgency Added. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 13In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- Vote recorded 3rd Reading AB1389 Blanca Rubio By Rubio Urgency Clause. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 13Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3836.).Passed Senate
- Mar 26Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Mar 25Ordered to second reading.Minor
- Mar 25Withdrawn from committee.Major
- Mar 25Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5.Minor
- Mar 25Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Mar 24Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.Major
- Mar 2Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Feb 26Ordered to second reading.Minor
- Feb 26From inactive file.
- 2025
- Sep 11Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Padilla.
- Jul 10Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Jul 10From Consent Calendar.
- Jul 9Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.Minor
- Jul 8From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 8).Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar. Result: pass.Upper
- May 7Referred to Com. on G.O.Minor
- Apr 10In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.Minor
- Vote recorded AB 1389 Blanca Rubio Consent Calendar Second Day. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 10Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 1120.)Passed Assembly
- Apr 7Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.Minor
- Apr 3From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (April 2).Minor
- Apr 2
- Vote recorded Do pass. To Consent Calendar. Result: pass.Lower
- Mar 13Referred to Com. on G.O.Minor
- Feb 24Read first time.Minor
- Feb 22From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
- Feb 21Introduced. To print.Introduced