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Bill	Tribal gaming: compact amendment 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 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.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1977	California AB 1977 (20152016)	bill	Tribal gaming: compact amendment ratification.	enacted	Wood	7	28	5	2016-02-16	2016-09-12	openstates	ocd-bill/5e1f1cce-6da9-48c2-a072-df72323850c9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1977	8a5b701097e4cb644c51d736e03d1988f04b9087c5d9625b6d807def084f261d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1977 (20152016) — Tribal gaming: compact amendment 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 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. 02/16/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/30/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/13/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/09/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/12/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1977 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/25/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1977 WOOD Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1977 WOOD Concurrence - Urgency Added — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1977 Wood By McGuire Urgency Clause — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wood — primary (person)
• McGuire — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2016-02-25 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2016-03-30 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-31 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2016-04-12 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-04-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-14 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2016-04-19 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-05-03 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-04 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 4725.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-05-19 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2016-06-14 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-06-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-09 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2016-08-09 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-11 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2016-08-11 Ordered to second reading.
• 2016-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-17 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5060.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-17 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 19 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-23 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6147.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-09-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 296, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5e1f1cce-6da9-48c2-a072-df72323850c9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).