---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tribal gaming: compact ratification."
description: "The existing federal 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: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 900"
citation: "California SB 900 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Tribal gaming: compact ratification."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hurtado"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-01"
last_action: "2022-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/447de7c3-a105-44d8-b752-794071639e99"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB900"
source_hash: "0b2afc605b607b58c170d681f7bc0400270fd4ded5fe497377986922c6902bd9"
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 900 (20212022) — Tribal gaming: compact ratification.

The existing federal 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. **02/01/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB900&version=20210SB90099INT)
2. **04/04/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB900&version=20210SB90098AMD)
3. **04/19/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB900&version=20210SB90097AMD)
4. **05/25/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB900&version=20210SB90095CHP)
5. **SB900** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB900)
6. **05/17/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB900&version=20210SB90096ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading SB900 Hurtado et al. Urgency Clause — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 900 Hurtado Third Reading Urgency By Aguiar-Curry — **71–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hurtado — primary (person)
- Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Salas — 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.)
- **2022-02-16** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-04** 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`
- **2022-04-19** 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`
- **2022-04-26** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2022-04-26** Ordered to second reading.
- **2022-04-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-02** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3582.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-02** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-09** Ordered to second reading.
- **2022-05-10** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-16** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 4709.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-16** (Corrected May 17.)
- **2022-05-17** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2022-05-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2022-05-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 18, 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/447de7c3-a105-44d8-b752-794071639e99`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).