---
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 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: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2032"
citation: "California AB 2032 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Tribal gaming", "compact ratification"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jim Patterson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-01"
last_action: "2024-09-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ea8e6705-802e-4198-b127-8abb337bf0d4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2032"
source_hash: "b51946903682aba6faf4283e035a58ffd801ab6d08b545d52884aca2470a87d8"
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 2032 (20232024) — 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 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. **02/01/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2032&version=20230AB203299INT)
2. **09/20/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2032&version=20230AB203297CHP)
3. **AB2032** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2032)
4. **09/05/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2032&version=20230AB203298ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2032 Jim Patterson Third Reading Urgency — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- 2nd Reading AB2032 Jim Patterson et al. By Grove Urgency Clause — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jim Patterson — primary (person)
- Grove — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-01** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-02** From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
- **2024-08-19** Without reference to committee. `referral-committee`
- **2024-08-19** Ordered to second reading.
- **2024-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-29** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-08-30** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2024-08-30** Ordered to second reading.
- **2024-08-31** Art. IV, Sec. 8(b) of the Constitution dispensed with. (Ayes 37. Noes 0.)
- **2024-08-31** Read second time. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-31** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-09-01** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2024-09-10** Enrolled measure version corrected.
- **2024-09-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-09-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 304, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ea8e6705-802e-4198-b127-8abb337bf0d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).