---
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 between the State of California and specified Indian tribes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2656"
citation: "California AB 2656 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Tribal gaming", "compact ratification"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ramos"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-14"
last_action: "2024-09-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18e63075-b23b-4c88-aa0c-3b7142db7bd6"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2656"
source_hash: "3e3c2ea235c86510761b9c2a496f3627a1976a7c26ef7a2f6641d1ecfd192dc8"
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 2656 (20232024) — 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 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. **02/14/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2656&version=20230AB265699INT)
2. **03/18/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2656&version=20230AB265698AMD)
3. **05/22/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2656&version=20230AB265697AMD)
4. **08/20/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2656&version=20230AB265696AMD)
5. **09/20/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2656&version=20230AB265694CHP)
6. **AB2656** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2656)
7. **08/31/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2656&version=20230AB265695ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB2656 Ramos By Grove Urgency Clause — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2656 Ramos Third Reading Urgency — **77–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ramos — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2024-03-18** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-03-19** Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-21** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-21** Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Page 5377.)
- **2024-05-21** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2024-05-21** Ordered to third reading.
- **2024-05-22** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 5550.) `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-20** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 6396.) `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-26** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6572.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-08-26** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2024-08-26** Ordered to second reading.
- **2024-08-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-28** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-28** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2024-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2024-09-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 313, 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/18e63075-b23b-4c88-aa0c-3b7142db7bd6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).