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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	20192020	AB 753	California AB 753 (20192020)	bill	Tribal gaming: compact ratification.	enacted	Eduardo Garcia	10	35	5	2019-02-19	2019-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/a266d012-685d-4904-9af9-4d31cf0a31ab	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB753	3d2e0a20cf3bdc209013b13bb5844f2f51c88b33b040823f3af29e494c522acc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 753 (20192020) — 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. 02/19/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/14/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/11/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/06/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/20/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/22/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/28/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/09/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB753 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/11/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 14–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 753 Eduardo Garcia Concurrence - Urgency Added — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB753 Eduardo Garcia By Stone Urgency Clause — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 753 Eduardo Garcia Assembly Third Reading — 56–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Eduardo Garcia — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2019-02-28 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2019-03-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-03-18 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2019-04-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-04-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2019-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-05-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-05-07 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-05-13 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1609.)
• 2019-05-15 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1760.)
• 2019-05-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-05-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 4. Page 2155.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-12 Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and EQ. referral-committee
• 2019-06-25 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2019-08-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on TRANS. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-08-26 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2019-08-26 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2019-08-27 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2019-08-27 Ordered to second reading.
• 2019-08-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-08-28 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-03 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2464.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-03 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-09 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3094.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 683, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a266d012-685d-4904-9af9-4d31cf0a31ab. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).