Local government: California tribes: federal fee-to-trust applications to regain ancestral lands.
Existing federal law sets forth policies and procedures governing the acquisition of land by the United States in trust status for specified individuals and tribes. Existing federal law requires the Secretary of the Interior to notify the state and local governments having regulatory jurisdiction over the land to be acquired, and authorizes the state or local government to provide written comments as to the acquisition's potential impacts on regulatory jurisdiction, real property taxes, and special assessments.
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California Legislature
20212022
SB 712
California SB 712 (20212022)
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Local government: California tribes: federal fee-to-trust applications to regain ancestral lands.
California SB 712 (20212022) — Local government: California tribes: federal fee-to-trust applications to regain ancestral lands.
Existing federal law sets forth policies and procedures governing the acquisition of land by the United States in trust status for specified individuals and tribes. Existing federal law requires the Secretary of the Interior to notify the state and local governments having regulatory jurisdiction over the land to be acquired, and authorizes the state or local government to provide written comments as to the acquisition's potential impacts on regulatory jurisdiction, real property taxes, and special assessments.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
2021-03-03 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
2021-03-10 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2021-03-18 Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
2021-04-13 Set for hearing April 22.
2021-04-19 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2021-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 1. Page 896.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2021-04-30 Set for hearing May 10.
2021-05-04 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2021-05-06 May 10 hearing postponed by committee.
2021-05-07 Set for hearing May 17.
2021-05-17 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
2021-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2021-05-20 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 0. Page 1127.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-05-20 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2021-05-28 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
2021-07-01 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 30). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-07-05 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2021-07-05 (Corrected July 9.)
2021-08-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-08-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2021-09-03 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-09-03 Ordered to third reading.
2021-09-08 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2882.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-09-08 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2021-09-09 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 2551.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
2021-09-24 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2021-09-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 291, Statutes of 2021. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d0c864aa-cd76-4e13-acd9-6505bccb03b1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).