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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: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 753"
citation: "California AB 753 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Tribal gaming: compact ratification."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eduardo Garcia"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-02-19"
last_action: "2019-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a266d012-685d-4904-9af9-4d31cf0a31ab"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB753"
source_hash: "3d2e0a20cf3bdc209013b13bb5844f2f51c88b33b040823f3af29e494c522acc"
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 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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB753&version=20190AB75399INT)
2. **03/14/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB753&version=20190AB75398AMD)
3. **04/11/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB753&version=20190AB75397AMD)
4. **05/06/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB753&version=20190AB75396AMD)
5. **05/20/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB753&version=20190AB75395AMD)
6. **08/22/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB753&version=20190AB75394AMD)
7. **08/28/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB753&version=20190AB75393AMD)
8. **10/09/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB753&version=20190AB75391CHP)
9. **AB753** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB753)
10. **09/11/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB753&version=20190AB75392ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended. — **141** (pass) · lower
- AB 753 Eduardo Garcia Concurrence - Urgency Added — **790** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB753 Eduardo Garcia By Stone Urgency Clause — **400** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **111** (pass) · lower
- AB 753 Eduardo Garcia Assembly Third Reading — **564** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a266d012-685d-4904-9af9-4d31cf0a31ab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).