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California 20252026

SB 1235

Tribal 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
upper
Classification
bill
Subjects
Tribalgaming, compactratification
Introduced / first action
2026-02-19 00:00:00

Alternate titles

  • California Gambling Control Commission.

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 5th amendment to the tribal-state gaming compact entered into between the State of California and the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of California, the tribal-state gaming compact between the State of California and the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe, and the first amendment to the tribal-state gaming compact entered into between the State of California and the Pechanga Band of Indians. 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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Source-supplied history

Actions

  1. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

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  2. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

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  3. Urgency clause adopted.

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  4. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  5. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate.

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  6. Ordered to third reading.

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  7. Read third time and amended.

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  8. Ordered to third reading.

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  9. From inactive file.

  10. Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry.

  11. Ordered to inactive file.

  12. From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry.

  13. Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

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  14. From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 24).

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  15. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  16. Referred to Com. on G.O.

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  17. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

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  18. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3921.) Ordered to the Assembly.

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  19. Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

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  20. From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar.

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  21. Set for hearing April 13.

  22. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0. Page 3658.) (March 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  23. Set for hearing March 24.

  24. Referred to Com. on G.O.

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  25. From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.

  26. Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

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