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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Tribal gaming: compact ratification."
+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 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."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20152016"
+identifier: "AB 629"
+citation: "California AB 629 (20152016)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Tribal gaming: compact ratification."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Gonzalez"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2015-02-24"
+last_action: "2016-08-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aa39a84b-43d2-454b-b638-9dbbe465cf0a"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB629"
+source_hash: "be835abf8fefb65eb91238e6e24f91457198a0b613f8277f1327fd5a82ada52f"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 629 (20152016) — Tribal gaming: compact ratification.
+
+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 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.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/24/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB629&version=20150AB62999INT)
+2. **03/26/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB629&version=20150AB62998AMD)
+3. **04/09/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB629&version=20150AB62997AMD)
+4. **05/06/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB629&version=20150AB62996AMD)
+5. **06/16/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB629&version=20150AB62995AMD)
+6. **08/22/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB629&version=20150AB62993CHP)
+7. **AB629** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB629)
+8. **08/05/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB629&version=20150AB62994ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- AB 629 GONZALEZ Concurrence - Urgency Added — **77–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 629 PEREA Consent Calendar Second Day — **74–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading AB629 Gonzalez By Block Urgency Clause — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Gonzalez — primary (person)
+- Waldron — principal coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-02-24** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2015-02-25** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
+- **2015-03-26** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-03-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-04-06** Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-04-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-04-13** Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-04-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-05-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-05-07** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-05-13** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-05-14** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-05-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1562.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-05-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2015-06-04** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
+- **2016-04-25** Withdrawn from committee.
+- **2016-04-25** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
+- **2016-06-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-06-21** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
+- **2016-06-30** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4636.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-06-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2016-08-04** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5696.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2016-08-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
+- **2016-08-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2016-08-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 160, Statutes of 2016.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aa39a84b-43d2-454b-b638-9dbbe465cf0a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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