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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 tribal-state gaming compacts, subject to ratification by the Legislature. Existing law expressly ratifies a number of tribal-state gaming compacts, and amendments of tribal-state gaming compacts, between the State of California and specified Indian tribes.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 1606	California AB 1606 (20172018)	bill	Tribal gaming: compact ratification.	enacted	Cooper	7	27	3	2017-02-17	2017-10-03	openstates	ocd-bill/c44da13f-760c-40a6-a5ba-8de9863378e3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1606	b1c3faf31702f151843d9835dabf69c47bfa183bacd8506be3b1a5418fce9e23	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1606 (20172018) — 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 tribal-state gaming compacts, subject to ratification by the Legislature. Existing law expressly ratifies a number of tribal-state gaming compacts, and amendments of 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. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/04/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/20/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/20/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/03/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1606 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/01/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1606 COOPER Concurrence - Urgency Added — 67–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1606 COOPER Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1606 Cooper et al. By Galgiani Urgency Clause — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cooper — primary (person)
• Galgiani — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2017-04-03 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and B. & P. referral-committee
• 2017-04-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-04-05 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2017-04-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. (Ayes 13. Noes 1.) (April 18). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-04-20 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-04-24 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2017-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-05-24 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1801.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-08 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2017-07-06 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-07-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-08-21 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2017-08-21 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2017-08-22 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2017-08-22 Ordered to second reading.
• 2017-08-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-08-24 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2228.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-08-31 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 2836.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-07 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2017-10-03 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-03 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 453, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c44da13f-760c-40a6-a5ba-8de9863378e3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).