CA SB 49

enacted

Tribal gaming: compact and amendment ratification.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Quick answers

Did CA SB 49 pass?

Yes. CA SB 49 has been enacted into law as of 2025-05-28. Latest recorded action (2025-05-28): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 3, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA SB 49 about?

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 amendments between the State of California and the Big Sandy Rancheria of Western Mono Indians of California, executed on December 12, 2024, and February 12, 2025, to extend the terms of the existing tribal-state gaming compact, executed on September 10, 1999. The bill would also ratify a new tribal-state gaming compact entered into between the State of California and the Big Sandy Rancheria of Western Mono Indians of California. The bill would provide that, in deference to tribal sovereignty, certain actions related to these compacts are not projects for the purposes of CEQA. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Who sponsors CA SB 49?

Grove is the primary sponsor of CA SB 49, joined by 1 cosponsor.

Description

Introduced: 2024-12-16
Latest action: 2025-05-28 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 3, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

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Action timeline

2024-12-16
Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
introduction,referral-committee
2024-12-17
From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 16.
2025-01-06
Read first time.
reading-1
2025-02-19
Referred to Com. on RLS.
referral-committee
2025-02-20
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-02-25
Withdrawn from committee.
withdrawal
2025-02-25
Ordered to second reading.
reading-1,reading-2
2025-02-26
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2025-03-17
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 385.) Ordered to the Assembly.
amendment-passage,passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-03-17
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
reading-1
2025-05-08
Ordered to second reading.
reading-1,reading-2
2025-05-12
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2025-05-19
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1611.) Ordered to the Senate.
amendment-passage,passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-05-20
In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
committee-passage
2025-05-23
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
executive-receipt
2025-05-28
Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature
2025-05-28
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 3, Statutes of 2025.
became-law

Versions

12/16/24 - Introduced — 2024-12-16Compare
02/20/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-02-20Compare
05/21/25 - Enrolled — 2025-05-21Compare
05/28/25 - Chaptered — 2025-05-28Compare
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Documents

Votes

3rd Reading SB49 Grove et al. Urgency Clause
2025-03-17 · pass · 37-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Becker: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Grove: yes
- Niello: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Jones: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Choi: yes
- Laird: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Limón: yes
- McGuire: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Allen: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Reyes: other
- Stern: other
- Hurtado: other
SB 49 Grove Third Reading Urgency By Tangipa
2025-05-20 · pass · 73-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Solache: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Fong: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Lee: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Soria: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Haney: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Addis: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Krell: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Ward: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Hart: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Ta: yes
- Berman: yes
- Bains: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Chen: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Patel: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Davies: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Papan: other
- McKinnor: other
- Dixon: other
- Bonta: other
- Flora: other
- Jeff Gonzalez: other

Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

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http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB49

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