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Bill	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 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 315	California AB 315 (20152016)	bill	Tribal gaming: compact ratification.	enacted	Bigelow	7	24	6	2015-02-12	2015-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/87b250c8-0376-4b13-8d2f-3ad80139c052	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB315	b27ee521ae3ecd0c2db5138b92113d65e5058e27f82bb2e167b290fabd8f339f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 315 (20152016) — 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 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. 02/12/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/19/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/08/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/20/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/06/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB315 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/02/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 315 BIGELOW Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 315 BIGELOW Concurrence - Urgency Added — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB315 Bigelow By Nielsen Urgency Clause — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bigelow — primary (person)
• Beth Gaines — coauthor (person)
• Dahle — coauthor (person)
• Gaines — coauthor (person)
• Nielsen — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-12 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-13 From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
• 2015-03-19 Referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2015-03-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-03-23 Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2015-04-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-22 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 22). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-23 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-04-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1222.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-05-14 Referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2015-06-22 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-07-07 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 7). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-07-08 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-17 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2015-08-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-08-20 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-08-27 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 2192.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-27 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2015-08-31 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2671.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2015-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 512, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/87b250c8-0376-4b13-8d2f-3ad80139c052. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).