---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tribal gaming: compact amendment 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 those 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: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 898"
citation: "California SB 898 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Tribal gaming: compact amendment ratification."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dodd"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-02-01"
last_action: "2022-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3b2bc22c-7938-4f7d-9689-ff96d85537fc"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB898"
source_hash: "9ff3a32f92dc5bb959b17bbfec232b004ee07cfbe3ac8b51c7963d6497f38369"
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 898 (20212022) — Tribal gaming: compact amendment 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 those 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. **02/01/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB898&version=20210SB89899INT)
2. **03/24/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB898&version=20210SB89898AMD)
3. **05/19/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB898&version=20210SB89897AMD)
4. **06/13/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB898&version=20210SB89895CHP)
5. **SB898** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB898)
6. **06/02/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB898&version=20210SB89896ENR)

## Votes

- Unfinished Business SB898 Dodd et al. Urgency Clause Concurrence — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 898 Dodd Third Reading Urgency By Santiago — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SB898 Dodd et al. Urgency Clause — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dodd — primary (person)
- Allen — coauthor (person)
- Archuleta — coauthor (person)
- Borgeas — coauthor (person)
- Bradford — coauthor (person)
- Hueso — coauthor (person)
- Jones — coauthor (person)
- Nielsen — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — principal coauthor (person)
- Wilk — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-01** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-02-02** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 4.
- **2022-02-07** Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
- **2022-02-07** (Ayes 31. Noes 6.)
- **2022-02-07** Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 2880.)
- **2022-02-09** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-17** Set for hearing March 15.
- **2022-03-01** March 15 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2022-03-24** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-05** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2022-04-05** Ordered to second reading.
- **2022-04-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-04-07** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3357.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-04-07** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-16** Ordered to second reading.
- **2022-05-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-19** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-19** Ordered to third reading.
- **2022-05-27** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5200.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-27** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2022-05-31** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 4014.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2022-06-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-06-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 19, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3b2bc22c-7938-4f7d-9689-ff96d85537fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).