---
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 of tribal-state gaming compacts, between the State of California and specified Indian tribes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "SB 668"
citation: "California SB 668 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Tribal gaming: compact ratification."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fuller"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2013-02-22"
last_action: "2013-07-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eca57ab0-0d12-4421-84a1-5fae9da0743a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB668"
source_hash: "1bcc8f386809c8dd8ebffa5abab9e85095d87a3de0cfbb16307014974115dd41"
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 SB 668 (20132014) — 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 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. **02/22/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB668&version=20130SB66899INT)
2. **04/01/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB668&version=20130SB66898AMD)
3. **06/27/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB668&version=20130SB66897AMD)
4. **07/11/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB668&version=20130SB66895CHP)
5. **SB668** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB668)
6. **07/03/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB668&version=20130SB66896ENR)

## Votes

- Unfinished Business (Urgency Clause) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 668 Fuller Third Reading Urgency By CONWAY — **70–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Fuller — primary (person)
- Conway — coauthor (person)
- Hall — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-22** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2013-02-23** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 25.
- **2013-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2013-03-11** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-01** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-04-03** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-24** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2013-04-24** Ordered to second reading.
- **2013-04-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-29** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 711.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-04-29** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-16** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-25** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2013-06-25** Ordered to second reading.
- **2013-06-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-06-27** Read third time and amended. (Page 2202.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-06-27** Ordered to third reading.
- **2013-07-01** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 2247.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-07-01** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2013-07-03** Urgency clause adopted.
- **2013-07-03** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1654.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-07-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2013-07-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-07-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 67, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eca57ab0-0d12-4421-84a1-5fae9da0743a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).