---
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: "20252026"
identifier: "SB 864"
citation: "California SB 864 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Tribalgaming", "compactratification"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Padilla"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 28
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-03-20"
last_action: "2025-10-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4e0317e6-26e5-48ba-bb0e-db51e8cadd2d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB864"
source_hash: "3219600cb89c6199b3a99fe808bd5771789c2d4ce22beac303920593e203f53f"
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 864 (20252026) — 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. **03/20/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB864&version=20250SB86499INT)
2. **09/03/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB864&version=20250SB86498AMD)
3. **10/01/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB864&version=20250SB86496CHP)
4. **SB864** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB864)
5. **09/16/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB864&version=20250SB86497ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 864 Padilla Third Reading Urgency By Ramos — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB864 Padilla et al. Urgency Clause Concurrence — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd SB864 G.O. — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **22–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Padilla — primary (person)
- Archuleta — coauthor (person)
- Ashby — coauthor (person)
- Hurtado — coauthor (person)
- Ochoa Bogh — coauthor (person)
- Richardson — coauthor (person)
- Wahab — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-20** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-03-21** From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 20.
- **2025-04-02** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Set for hearing April 22.
- **2025-04-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0. Page 831.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-25** Set for hearing May 5.
- **2025-05-05** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2025-05-06** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-08** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1052.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-05-08** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-19** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 22. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-02** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 2). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-07-03** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-07-10** From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Garcia.
- **2025-07-10** Ordered to inactive file.
- **2025-08-18** Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry.
- **2025-08-19** From inactive file.
- **2025-08-19** Ordered to third reading.
- **2025-09-03** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-03** Ordered to third reading.
- **2025-09-09** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3068.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-09** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2025-09-11** Urgency clause adopted.
- **2025-09-11** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2877.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2025-10-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 244, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4e0317e6-26e5-48ba-bb0e-db51e8cadd2d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).