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California bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

California AB 2539

Tribal-state 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 tribal-state gaming compact entered into between the State of California and the Yurok Tribe of the Yurok Reservation, California, executed on August 4, 2026. The bill would provide that, in deference to tribal sovereignty, certain actions related to this 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 15, 2026, 4:19 PM.

DateVoteResultYour legislators
Aug 27, 2026
House		AB 2539 Ramos Concurrence - Urgency AddedpassSet your home in California to see
Aug 27, 2026
Senate		3rd Reading AB2539 Ramos By McGuire Urgency ClausepassSet your home in California to see
Jun 9, 2026
Senate		Do pass and be ordered to the Consent CalendarpassSet your home in California to see
Apr 16, 2026
House		AB 2539 Ramos Consent Calendar Second DaypassSet your home in California to see
Apr 8, 2026
House		Do pass. To Consent Calendar.passSet your home in California to see

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