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California 20252026

AB 2539

Tribal-state gaming: compact ratification.

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Source: Open States / PluralUpdated 2026-09-12 13:12:55 UTC.

Official record

Measure details

Jurisdiction
California
Session
20252026
Chamber
lower
Classification
bill
Subjects
Tribal-stategaming, compactratification
Introduced / first action
2026-02-20 00:00:00

Alternate titles

  • Tribal-state gaming compacts: ratification.

Source-supplied abstracts

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. 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 Yurok Tribe of the Yurok Reservation, California, executed on August 4, 2026. The bill would provide that, in deference to tribal sovereignty, certain actions related to this 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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Source-supplied history

Actions

  1. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

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  2. Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0.).

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  3. In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

  4. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.).

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  5. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  6. Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

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  7. Ordered to second reading.

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  8. From inactive file.

  9. Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Rubio.

  10. From Consent Calendar.

  11. Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

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  12. From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 9).

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  13. Referred to Com. on G.O.

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  14. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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  15. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 4683.)

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  16. Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

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  17. From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 22. Noes 0.) (April 8).

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  18. Referred to Com. on G.O.

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  19. From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.

  20. Read first time. To print.

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