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type: "Bill"
title: "Tribal gaming: compact and amendment 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: "20252026"
identifier: "SB 49"
citation: "California SB 49 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Tribalgaming", "compactandamendmentratification"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Grove"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-12-16"
last_action: "2025-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/402ceb5a-abfb-4c4d-9b6d-76afb02f9193"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB49"
source_hash: "1eb7e4d733e42e84ff9292e03f65e039b1501c35488815a3c55d4c5e28cd405e"
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 SB 49 (20252026) — Tribal gaming: compact and amendment 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. **12/16/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB49&version=20250SB4999INT)
2. **02/20/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB49&version=20250SB4998AMD)
3. **05/28/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB49&version=20250SB4996CHP)
4. **SB49** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB49)
5. **05/21/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB49&version=20250SB4997ENR)
## Votes
- SB 49 Grove Third Reading Urgency By Tangipa — **730** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SB49 Grove et al. Urgency Clause — **370** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Grove — primary (person)
- Tangipa — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-12-16** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2024-12-17** From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 16.
- **2025-01-06** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-19** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20** 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`
- **2025-02-25** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2025-02-25** Ordered to second reading.
- **2025-02-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-03-17** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 385.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-03-17** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-08** Ordered to second reading.
- **2025-05-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-19** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1611.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-05-20** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2025-05-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2025-05-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 3, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/402ceb5a-abfb-4c4d-9b6d-76afb02f9193`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).