---
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 498"
citation: "California AB 498 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Tribal gaming", "compact ratification"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aguiar-Curry"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-07"
last_action: "2023-05-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d06d4750-9a16-4cc8-879a-d82801f8fae1"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB498"
source_hash: "f0b3e436946913f6c2c45c9b0049b901d80ed8bd21dab3f80bae09597ee7e9a3"
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 498 (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. **02/07/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB498&version=20230AB49899INT)
2. **03/02/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB498&version=20230AB49898AMD)
3. **04/03/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB498&version=20230AB49897AMD)
4. **04/24/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB498&version=20230AB49896AMD)
5. **05/22/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB498&version=20230AB49894CHP)
6. **AB498** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB498)
7. **05/15/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB498&version=20230AB49895ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB498 Aguiar-Curry By Dodd Urgency Clause — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 498 Aguiar-Curry Third Reading Urgency — **78–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Aguiar-Curry — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-07** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-08** From printer. May be heard in committee March 10.
- **2023-03-02** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-02** 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`
- **2023-03-06** Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** 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`
- **2023-04-04** Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-17** Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Page 1167.)
- **2023-04-17** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2023-04-17** Ordered to second reading.
- **2023-04-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-04-24** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1298.) `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-01** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1407.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-09** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2023-05-09** Ordered to second reading.
- **2023-05-10** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-11** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1053.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-11** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2023-05-18** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2023-05-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 9, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d06d4750-9a16-4cc8-879a-d82801f8fae1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).