--- type: "Bill" title: "Tribal gaming: compact ratification." description: "Existing federal law, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, 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 of tribal-state gaming compacts, between the State of California and specified Indian tribes." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20092010" identifier: "AB 122" citation: "California AB 122 (20092010)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Tribal gaming: compact ratification."] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Coto"] version_count: 9 action_count: 28 vote_count: 5 first_action: "2009-01-15" last_action: "2010-02-09" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c0487d86-e63e-4c25-b84d-25bdc32d4199" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB122" source_hash: "b108807fcc3e576a2a9a005f4c418ca19e06bbdbad4851dc034c35fea10c1fe8" 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 122 (20092010) — Tribal gaming: compact ratification. Existing federal law, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, 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 of 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. **01/15/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB122&version=20090AB12299INT) 2. **02/09/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB122&version=20090AB12292CHP) 3. **03/17/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB122&version=20090AB12298AMD) 4. **03/24/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB122&version=20090AB12297AMD) 5. **04/14/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB122&version=20090AB12296AMD) 6. **06/01/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB122&version=20090AB12295AMD) 7. **09/10/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB122&version=20090AB12294AMD) 8. **AB122** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB122) 9. **01/27/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB122&version=20090AB12293ENR) ## Votes - Assembly 3rd Reading AB122 Coto Urgency Clause — **pass** (pass) · upper - Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower - AB 122 COTO Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower - Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower - AB 122 COTO Concurrence- Urgency Added — **pass** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Coto — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2009-01-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1` - **2009-01-16** From printer. May be heard in committee February 15. - **2009-02-26** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee` - **2009-03-17** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1` - **2009-03-18** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee` - **2009-03-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1` - **2009-03-25** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee` - **2009-04-13** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (April 1). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage` - **2009-04-14** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1` - **2009-04-15** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee` - **2009-04-29** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee` - **2009-05-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 28). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage` - **2009-06-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1` - **2009-06-02** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2009-06-03** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 24. Page 2029.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1` - **2009-06-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1` - **2009-06-18** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee` - **2009-07-07** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. - **2009-09-10** Senate Rule 29.3 suspended. - **2009-09-10** Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee` - **2009-09-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1` - **2009-12-16** Ordered to third reading. - **2009-12-17** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 4. Page 2606.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1` - **2010-01-04** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after January 6 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. - **2010-01-25** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 63. Noes 2. Page 3859.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2010-01-28** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:50 a.m. - **2010-02-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2010-02-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 3, Statutes of 2010. ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c0487d86-e63e-4c25-b84d-25bdc32d4199`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).