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type: "Bill"
title: "Tribal gaming: compact ratification."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1966"
citation: "California AB 1966 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Tribal gaming: compact ratification."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aguiar-Curry"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 27
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2018-01-31"
last_action: "2018-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53be77e9-ee2c-4401-97f8-08c817acc45d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1966"
source_hash: "712bcb9866500c352e0b8571f3d4935c7ece75a520a7659d3cc3274dc110ccd1"
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 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.
1. **01/31/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1966&version=20170AB196699INT)
2. **08/24/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1966&version=20170AB196698AMD)
3. **09/27/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1966&version=20170AB196696CHP)
4. **AB1966** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1966)
5. **09/05/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1966&version=20170AB196697ENR)
## Votes
- AB 1966 Aguiar-Curry Concurrence - Urgency Added — **790** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1966 Aguiar-Curry et al. By McGuire Urgency Clause — **380** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **100** (pass) · upper
- AB 1966 AGUIAR-CURRY Consent Calendar Second Day — **680** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB1966 Aguiar-Curry — **370** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1966 Aguiar-Curry et al. By McGuire Reconsider — **390** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **210** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1966 Aguiar-Curry et al. By McGuire Urgency Clause — **260** (fail) · upper
## Sponsors
- 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/53be77e9-ee2c-4401-97f8-08c817acc45d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).