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AB-1527 • 2026

Tribal gaming: compact ratification.

Tribal gaming: compact ratification.

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Soria
Last action
2025-10-01
Official status
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 202, Statutes of 2025.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary and digest do not specify which actions are exempt from CEQA requirements, leaving this detail uncertain.

Tribal Gaming Compact Ratification

AB-1527 ratifies an amendment to the tribal-state gaming compact between California and the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians, and exempts certain actions related to this amendment from CEQA requirements.

What This Bill Does

  • Ratifies an amendment to the tribal-state gaming compact between California and the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians.
  • Exempts certain actions related to the amended compact from being considered projects under CEQA, in deference to tribal sovereignty.

Who It Names or Affects

  • The State of California
  • Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians

Terms To Know

Tribal-state gaming compact
An agreement between a state and an Indian tribe that authorizes certain types of gambling on tribal lands.
CEQA
California Environmental Quality Act, which requires environmental impact reports for projects with significant effects on the environment.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill does not specify what actions are exempt from CEQA requirements.
  • It is unclear how this exemption will be applied in practice.

Bill History

  1. 2025-10-01 California Legislative Information

    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 202, Statutes of 2025.

  2. 2025-10-01 California Legislative Information

    Approved by the Governor.

  3. 2025-09-23 California Legislative Information

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

  4. 2025-09-11 California Legislative Information

    Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3332.).

  5. 2025-09-10 California Legislative Information

    In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

  6. 2025-09-10 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2795.).

  7. 2025-08-27 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  8. 2025-08-26 California Legislative Information

    Ordered to second reading.

  9. 2025-08-26 California Legislative Information

    Withdrawn from committee.

  10. 2025-06-23 California Legislative Information

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O.

  11. 2025-05-14 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on G.O.

  12. 2025-05-01 California Legislative Information

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

  13. 2025-05-01 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1388.)

  14. 2025-04-28 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

  15. 2025-04-24 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 22. Noes 0.) (April 23).

  16. 2025-03-24 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on G.O.

  17. 2025-03-19 California Legislative Information

    From printer. May be heard in committee April 18.

  18. 2025-03-18 California Legislative Information

    Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 1527, Soria.
Tribal gaming: compact 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.
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 amendment to the tribal-state gaming compact entered into between the State of California and the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of California. 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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