--- 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 tribal-state gaming 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: "20172018" identifier: "AB 1606" citation: "California AB 1606 (20172018)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Tribal gaming: compact ratification."] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Cooper"] version_count: 7 action_count: 27 vote_count: 3 first_action: "2017-02-17" last_action: "2017-10-03" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c44da13f-760c-40a6-a5ba-8de9863378e3" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1606" source_hash: "b1c3faf31702f151843d9835dabf69c47bfa183bacd8506be3b1a5418fce9e23" 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 1606 (20172018) — 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 tribal-state gaming 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. **02/17/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1606&version=20170AB160699INT) 2. **04/04/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1606&version=20170AB160698AMD) 3. **04/20/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1606&version=20170AB160697AMD) 4. **07/20/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1606&version=20170AB160696AMD) 5. **10/03/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1606&version=20170AB160694CHP) 6. **AB1606** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1606) 7. **09/01/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1606&version=20170AB160695ENR) ## Votes - AB 1606 COOPER Concurrence - Urgency Added — **67–0** (pass) · lower - AB 1606 COOPER Assembly Third Reading — **75–0** (pass) · lower - 3rd Reading AB1606 Cooper et al. By Galgiani Urgency Clause — **38–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Cooper — primary (person) - Galgiani — principal coauthor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2017-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1` - **2017-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21. - **2017-04-03** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and B. & P. `referral-committee` - **2017-04-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1` - **2017-04-05** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee` - **2017-04-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. (Ayes 13. Noes 1.) (April 18). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction` - **2017-04-20** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2` - **2017-04-24** Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee` - **2017-04-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee` - **2017-05-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage` - **2017-05-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2017-05-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1801.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1` - **2017-05-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1` - **2017-06-08** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee` - **2017-07-06** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. - **2017-07-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction` - **2017-08-21** Withdrawn from committee. - **2017-08-21** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee` - **2017-08-22** Withdrawn from committee. - **2017-08-22** Ordered to second reading. - **2017-08-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2017-08-24** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2228.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1` - **2017-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. - **2017-08-31** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 2836.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage` - **2017-09-07** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m. - **2017-10-03** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2017-10-03** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 453, Statutes of 2017. ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c44da13f-760c-40a6-a5ba-8de9863378e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).