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California 20252026

SB 542

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
2025-02-20 00:00:00

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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 2nd amendment to the tribal-state gaming compact entered into between the State of California and the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians executed on August 4, 2026. 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 6 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. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6382.) 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 on request of Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry.

  12. Ordered to third reading.

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  13. Read third time and amended.

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  14. Assembly Rule 69(b)(1) suspended.

  15. (Corrected September 4).

  16. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  17. Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

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  18. From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (August 29).

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  19. August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  20. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (July 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  21. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.M. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (July 7). Re-referred to Com. on E.M.

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  22. Coauthors revised.

  23. Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and E.M.

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

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  25. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 11. Page 1465.) Ordered to the Assembly.

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  26. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  27. Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

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  28. From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1203.) (May 23).

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  29. Set for hearing May 23.

  30. May 12 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  31. Set for hearing May 12.

  32. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  33. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 839.) (April 22).

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  34. Set for hearing April 22.

  35. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W.

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  36. Referred to Com. on N.R. & W.

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  37. From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.

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

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