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CA SB 864

enacted

Tribal gaming: compact ratification.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Quick answers

Did CA SB 864 pass?

Yes. CA SB 864 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-01. Latest recorded action (2025-10-01): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 244, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA SB 864 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 the tribal-state gaming compact entered into between the State of California and the Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria, the first amendment to the compact between the State of California and the Pinoleville Pomo Nation, California, and the first amendment to the compact between the State of California and the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation. 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 864?

Padilla is the primary sponsor of CA SB 864, joined by 6 cosponsors.

Description

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 Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria, the first amendment to the compact between the State of California and the Pinoleville Pomo Nation, California, and the first amendment to the compact between the State of California and the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation. 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.

Introduced
2025-03-20
Latest action
2025-10-01 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 244, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Padillaauthor
  • Archuletacoauthor
  • Ashbycoauthor
  • Hurtadocoauthor
  • Ochoa Boghcoauthor
  • Richardsoncoauthor
  • Wahabcoauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-03-20

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

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  2. 2025-03-21

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 20.

  3. 2025-04-02

    Referred to Com. on G.O.

    referral-committee

  4. 2025-04-08

    Set for hearing April 22.

  5. 2025-04-22

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0. Page 831.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  6. 2025-04-25

    Set for hearing May 5.

  7. 2025-05-05

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

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  8. 2025-05-06

    Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

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  9. 2025-05-08

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1052.) Ordered to the Assembly.

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  10. 2025-05-08

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

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  11. 2025-05-19

    Referred to Com. on G.O.

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  12. 2025-06-26

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 22. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  13. 2025-07-02

    From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 2).

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  14. 2025-07-03

    Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

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  15. 2025-07-10

    Ordered to inactive file.

  16. 2025-07-10

    From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Garcia.

  17. 2025-08-18

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

  18. 2025-08-19

    From inactive file.

  19. 2025-08-19

    Ordered to third reading.

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  20. 2025-09-03

    Read third time and amended.

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  21. 2025-09-03

    Ordered to third reading.

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  22. 2025-09-09

    Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3068.) Ordered to the Senate.

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  23. 2025-09-09

    In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  24. 2025-09-11

    Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2877.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

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  25. 2025-09-11

    Urgency clause adopted.

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  26. 2025-09-22

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

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  27. 2025-10-01

    Approved by the Governor.

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  28. 2025-10-01

    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 244, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

  • 03/20/25 - Introduced — 2025-03-20Compare
  • 09/03/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-09-03Compare
  • 09/16/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-16Compare
  • 10/01/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-01Compare
  • SB864Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar

    2025-04-22 · pass · 14-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Hurtado: other

  • Consent Calendar 2nd SB864 G.O.

    2025-05-08 · pass · 36-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Grove: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Alvarado-Gil: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Rubio: other
    • Valladares: other
    • Reyes: other
    • Hurtado: other

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar

    2025-06-25 · pass · 22-0

    Member-level votes (22)
    • Ramos: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Alvarez: yes

  • Do pass. To Consent Calendar.

    2025-07-02 · pass · 14-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Mark González: other

  • SB 864 Padilla Third Reading Urgency By Ramos

    2025-09-09 · pass · 79-0

    Member-level votes (80)
    • Addis: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Johnson: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Gallagher: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Chen: other

  • Unfinished Business SB864 Padilla et al. Urgency Clause Concurrence

    2025-09-11 · pass · 40-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Valladares: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Reyes: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Alvarado-Gil: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Wahab: yes

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