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Bill	Tribal gaming: compact ratification.	The existing federal 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	SB 6	California SB 6 (20172018)	bill	Tribal gaming: compact ratification.	enacted	Hueso	10	39	1	2016-12-05	2017-10-03	openstates	ocd-bill/761434a4-4558-4bd1-a814-e0c3d4d6da2a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB6	9be6e003f2889708144fad404ab386b6aceabe0a26572988d2dedddbed0bbe23	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 6 (20172018) — Tribal gaming: compact ratification.

The existing federal 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. 12/05/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/24/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 02/15/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 03/01/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 03/29/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/05/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/08/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/03/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. SB6 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/19/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 3–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hueso — primary (person)
• Eduardo Garcia — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-12-05 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2016-12-06 From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 5.
• 2017-01-12 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2017-01-24 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-01-25 Set for hearing January 31.
• 2017-01-31 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUMAN S. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 130.) (January 31). Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-02-03 Set for hearing February 14.
• 2017-02-14 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 1. Page 192.) (February 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-02-15 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-03-01 Set for hearing March 6.
• 2017-03-01 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-03-02 March 6 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2017-03-03 Set for hearing March 13.
• 2017-03-13 Motion to place on APPR. suspense file failed.
• 2017-03-13 (Ayes 2. Noes 4. Page 348.) (March 13)
• 2017-03-13 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 348.) (March 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-03-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-03-29 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-03-29 Ordered to second reading.
• 2017-03-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-03-30 Published March 29 at 9 p.m.
• 2017-04-03 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 11. Page 582.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-04-04 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-05-18 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2017-06-07 June 13 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2017-06-19 June 20 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-09-05 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-07 Assembly Rule 96 suspended.
• 2017-09-07 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2017-09-07 Ordered to second reading.
• 2017-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-08 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-09-08 Ordered to third reading.
• 2017-09-14 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3412.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-15 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2017-09-15 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2992.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5:30 p.m.
• 2017-10-03 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-03 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 455, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/761434a4-4558-4bd1-a814-e0c3d4d6da2a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).