---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tribal Gaming."
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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1916"
citation: "California AB 1916 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Tribal Gaming."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hall"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2014-02-19"
last_action: "2014-09-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2bfe708b-3ccb-4939-b8b9-750784aa641e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1916"
source_hash: "de6ea783f8cac4d474d2fe6b71374710a9aab34bfefcbf73a624ede6b39acb97"
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 1916 (20132014) — Tribal Gaming.

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.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/19/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1916&version=20130AB191699INT)
2. **09/26/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1916&version=20130AB191697CHP)
3. **AB1916** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1916)
4. **08/29/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1916&version=20130AB191698ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent #19 — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1916 HALL Assembly Third Reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **19–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hall — primary (person)
- Chesbro — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2014-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2014-03-03** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-04-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-01** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4760.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-15** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-08-04** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2014-08-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-08-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-26** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2014-08-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4903.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-27** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2014-09-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2014-09-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 600, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2bfe708b-3ccb-4939-b8b9-750784aa641e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).