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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 629	California AB 629 (20152016)	bill	Tribal gaming: compact ratification.	enacted	Gonzalez	8	25	5	2015-02-24	2016-08-22	openstates	ocd-bill/aa39a84b-43d2-454b-b638-9dbbe465cf0a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB629	be835abf8fefb65eb91238e6e24f91457198a0b613f8277f1327fd5a82ada52f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 629 (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. 02/24/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/09/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/06/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/16/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/22/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB629 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/05/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 629 GONZALEZ Concurrence - Urgency Added — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 629 PEREA Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB629 Gonzalez By Block Urgency Clause — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gonzalez — primary (person)
• Waldron — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-24 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-25 From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
• 2015-03-26 Referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2015-03-26 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
• 2015-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2015-04-09 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
• 2015-04-13 Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2015-04-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-07 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2015-05-13 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-14 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1562.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-22 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-06-04 Referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2016-04-25 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2016-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2016-06-16 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
• 2016-06-21 From committee: Ordered to third reading. committee-passage
• 2016-06-30 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4636.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-04 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5696.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2016-08-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-08-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 160, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/aa39a84b-43d2-454b-b638-9dbbe465cf0a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).