republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/sb-838.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Transportation."
description: "Existing law authorizes the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank to sell specified portions of compact assets, defined as moneys required to be paid to the state under specified provisions of designated tribal compacts and the state's rights to receive those payments, to a special purpose trust, which may issue bonds that are secured against those assets. The net proceeds of the sale of the compact assets are required to be deposited into certain transportation funds in a specified order. Existing law requires that when the amounts described in those provisions have been paid to the transportation funds named, the revenues received by the state from the tribal compacts are required to be remitted to the California Gambling Control Commission for deposit in the General Fund."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 838"
citation: "California SB 838 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Transportation."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2016-01-07"
last_action: "2016-09-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7ccaae43-4786-438a-a0a9-7f040c251a04"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB838"
source_hash: "8d0eb79fa96e211408f6a26547ae0d53d5871a459afb31e205950682c359c09f"
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 838 (20152016) — Transportation.

Existing law authorizes the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank to sell specified portions of compact assets, defined as moneys required to be paid to the state under specified provisions of designated tribal compacts and the state's rights to receive those payments, to a special purpose trust, which may issue bonds that are secured against those assets. The net proceeds of the sale of the compact assets are required to be deposited into certain transportation funds in a specified order. Existing law requires that when the amounts described in those provisions have been paid to the transportation funds named, the revenues received by the state from the tribal compacts are required to be remitted to the California Gambling Control Commission for deposit in the General Fund.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **01/07/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB838&version=20150SB83899INT)
2. **05/25/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB838&version=20150SB83898AMD)
3. **06/10/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB838&version=20150SB83897AMD)
4. **09/13/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB838&version=20150SB83895CHP)
5. **SB838** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB838)
6. **08/24/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB838&version=20150SB83896ENR)

## Votes

- SB 838 B. & F. R. Senate Third Reading By TING — **49–28** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB838 Committee On B. & F.R. (Leno) Concurrence — **25–13** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading SB838 Committee On B. & F.R. — **25–11** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-01-07** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2016-01-08** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 7.
- **2016-01-11** Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-11** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2016-04-11** Ordered to second reading.
- **2016-04-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-04-14** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 25. Noes 11. Page 3540.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-14** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2016-05-02** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-25** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-10** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-15** Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 50. Noes 25. Page 5358.)
- **2016-06-15** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2016-06-15** Ordered to third reading.
- **2016-06-15** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 50. Noes 25. Page 5358.)
- **2016-06-16** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 49. Noes 28. Page 5389.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-16** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2016-08-22** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 25. Noes 13. Page 5238.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:30 p.m.
- **2016-09-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 339, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7ccaae43-4786-438a-a0a9-7f040c251a04`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).