California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill
SB 1235: Tribal gaming: compact ratification.
Enacted Official data
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
- Enacted
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Plain-language summary
SB 1235 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on February 19, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Tribal gaming: compact ratification. Primary sponsor: Susan Rubio (D). It lists 7 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (September 14, 2026): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 230, Statutes of 2026.
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Official summary
Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.
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.
Sponsors
Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 4 · Republican 4
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Susan Rubio | Primary sponsor | Democratic | Senate | 22 |
| Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh | Co-sponsor | Republican | Senate | 19 |
| Megan Dahle | Co-sponsor | Republican | Senate | 1 |
| James Ramos | Co-sponsor | Democratic | Assembly | 45 |
| Laura Richardson | Co-sponsor | Democratic | Senate | 35 |
| Blanca Rubio | Co-sponsor | Democratic | Assembly | 48 |
| Kelly Seyarto | Co-sponsor | Republican | Senate | 32 |
| Suzette Martinez Valladares | Co-sponsor | Republican | Senate | 23 |
“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.
Recent official actions
- Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 230, Statutes of 2026.
- Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 230, Statutes of 2026.
- Approved by the Governor.
- Approved by the Governor.
- Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 6011.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- Urgency clause adopted.
- Urgency clause adopted.
- Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.