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California bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

California AB 1389

Tribal gaming: compact ratification.

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. To Governor
  6. Became law

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Summary

Official abstract published by the California legislature· summary

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. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project, as defined, that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment, as defined, or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. This bill would ratify the second amendment to the tribal-state gaming compact entered into between the State of California and the Yurok Tribe of the Yurok Reservation, California, executed on December 18, 2025, to extend the terms of the tribal-state gaming compact. The bill would provide that, in deference to tribal sovereignty, certain actions related to this amended compact are not projects for the purposes of CEQA. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

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Roll-call votes

State vote data last updated Oct 16, 2026, 12:24 AM.

DateVoteResultYour legislators
May 7, 2026
House		AB 1389 Blanca Rubio Concurrence - Urgency AddedpassSet your home in California to see
Apr 13, 2026
Senate		3rd Reading AB1389 Blanca Rubio By Rubio Urgency ClausepassSet your home in California to see
Jul 8, 2025
Senate		Do pass and be ordered to the Consent CalendarpassSet your home in California to see
Apr 10, 2025
House		AB 1389 Blanca Rubio Consent Calendar Second DaypassSet your home in California to see
Apr 2, 2025
House		Do pass. To Consent Calendar.passSet your home in California to see

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