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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 49: Tribal gaming: compact and amendment ratification.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 49 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on December 16, 2024. According to its official title, it concerns: Tribal gaming: compact and amendment ratification. Primary sponsor: Shannon Grove (R). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (May 28, 2025): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 3, Statutes of 2025.

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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 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.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 2

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Shannon GrovePrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate12
David TangipaCo-sponsorRepublicanAssembly8

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 3, Statutes of 2025.
  2. Approved by the Governor.
  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
  4. In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  5. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1611.) Ordered to the Senate.
  6. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  7. Ordered to second reading.
  8. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
  9. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 385.) Ordered to the Assembly.
  10. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  11. Ordered to second reading.
  12. Withdrawn from committee.

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page