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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 864: Tribal gaming: compact 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 864 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on March 20, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Tribal gaming: compact ratification. Primary sponsor: Stephen Padilla (D). It lists 6 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (October 1, 2025): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 244, 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 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.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 6 · Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Stephen PadillaPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate18
Bob ArchuletaCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate30
Angelique AshbyCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate8
Rosilicie Ochoa BoghCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate19
Melissa HurtadoCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate16
Laura RichardsonCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate35
Aisha WahabCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate10

“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 244, Statutes of 2025.
  2. Approved by the Governor.
  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
  4. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2877.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  5. Urgency clause adopted.
  6. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
  7. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3068.) Ordered to the Senate.
  8. Ordered to third reading.
  9. Read third time and amended.
  10. Ordered to third reading.
  11. From inactive file.
  12. Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry.

Sources

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