republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-1139.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Recognition of tribal court money judgments: tribal sales taxes."
description: "Existing federal law recognizes the sovereignty of federally recognized Indian tribes and provides for financial, developmental, and operational support of tribal justice systems. Existing law, the Tribal Court Civil Money Judgment Act, governs the procedure by which the superior courts of the state recognize and enter tribal court money judgments of any federally recognized Indian tribe. The act does not apply to tribal court money judgments for taxes, fines, or other penalties."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 1139"
citation: "California AB 1139 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Recognition of tribal court money judgments", "tribal sales taxes"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Garcia"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-15"
last_action: "2023-09-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ea21521d-68a9-471f-8ffb-3037111185a2"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1139"
source_hash: "8e35ec813ed46252fb16e79daa7da5c703ad8f32c2c0626c9479ae8fded0fc8a"
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 1139 (20232024) — Recognition of tribal court money judgments: tribal sales taxes.

Existing federal law recognizes the sovereignty of federally recognized Indian tribes and provides for financial, developmental, and operational support of tribal justice systems. Existing law, the Tribal Court Civil Money Judgment Act, governs the procedure by which the superior courts of the state recognize and enter tribal court money judgments of any federally recognized Indian tribe. The act does not apply to tribal court money judgments for taxes, fines, or other penalties.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/15/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1139&version=20230AB113999INT)
2. **04/12/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1139&version=20230AB113998AMD)
3. **06/07/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1139&version=20230AB113997AMD)
4. **09/01/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1139&version=20230AB113995CHP)
5. **AB1139** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1139)
6. **08/21/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1139&version=20230AB113996ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1139 Garcia Consent Calendar Second Day — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1139 Garcia Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB1139 Garcia et al. — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Garcia — primary (person)
- Seyarto — coauthor (person)
- Wallis — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
- **2023-03-30** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-04-17** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-02** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 2). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-03** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1492.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-17** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-21** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 20). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-22** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-06-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1825.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-06-29** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 1 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2023-08-17** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2734.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-08-29** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2023-09-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-09-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 138, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ea21521d-68a9-471f-8ffb-3037111185a2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).