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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 those 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
20172018
AB 1966
California AB 1966 (20172018)
Tribal gaming: compact ratification.
enacted
5
27
8
2018-01-31
2018-09-27
openstates
ocd-bill/53be77e9-ee2c-4401-97f8-08c817acc45d
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1966
712bcb9866500c352e0b8571f3d4935c7ece75a520a7659d3cc3274dc110ccd1
2026-07-01
https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump
2026-07-06
reported
California AB 1966 (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 those 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.
01/31/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
08/24/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
09/27/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
AB1966 (committee substitute) — source
09/05/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
AB 1966 Aguiar-Curry Concurrence - Urgency Added — 79– 0 (pass) · lower
3rd Reading AB1966 Aguiar-Curry et al. By McGuire Urgency Clause — 38– 0 (pass) · upper
Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 10– 0 (pass) · upper
AB 1966 AGUIAR-CURRY Consent Calendar Second Day — 68– 0 (pass) · lower
Consent Calendar AB1966 Aguiar-Curry — 37– 0 (pass) · upper
3rd Reading AB1966 Aguiar-Curry et al. By McGuire Reconsider — 39– 0 (pass) · upper
Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 21– 0 (pass) · lower
3rd Reading AB1966 Aguiar-Curry et al. By McGuire Urgency Clause — 26– 0 (fail) · upper
Aguiar-Curry — primary (person)
McGuire — principal coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2018-01-31 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2018-02-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
2018-03-05 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
2018-04-05 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (April 4). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2018-04-09 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2018-04-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 4646.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
2018-04-12 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2018-04-25 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
2018-06-12 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 12). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2018-06-13 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2018-06-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4732.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
2018-06-18 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
2018-06-21 Withdrawn from Engrossing and Enrolling.
2018-06-21 Ordered to the Senate.
2018-06-21 In Senate. Held at Desk.
2018-08-24 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. reading-3, passage
2018-08-24 Ordered to third reading.
2018-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
2018-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2018-08-29 Read third time. Urgency clause refused adoption. (Ayes 26. Noes 0. Page 6007.) reading-3, reading-1
2018-08-29 Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 6007.)
2018-08-31 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 6082.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
2018-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2018-08-31 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2018-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
2018-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2018-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 810, Statutes of 2018.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01 ; origin ocd-bill/53be77e9-ee2c-4401-97f8-08c817acc45d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).