Melissa Hurtado
- Democratic
- Senator
- District 16
Author
The existing federal 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 tribal-state gaming compacts, subject to ratification by the Legislature. Existing law expressly ratifies a number of tribal-state gaming compacts, and amendments of 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 compacts entered into between the State of California and the following Indian tribes: the Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria and the Middletown Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California. The bill would provide that, in deference to tribal sovereignty, certain actions related to these compacts are not projects for purposes of CEQA. The bill would repeal obsolete provisions related to the ratification of prior compacts between the 2 Indian tribes listed above and the State of California. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 18, Statutes of 2022.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 4709.) Ordered to the Senate.
(Corrected May 17.)
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Ordered to second reading.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3582.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Ordered to second reading.
Withdrawn from committee.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O.
(Ayes 31. Noes 6.)
Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 2880.)
Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 4.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| SB900 | HTML |
| 02/01/22 - Introduced | |
| 04/04/22 - Amended Senate | |
| 04/19/22 - Amended Senate | |
| 05/17/22 - Enrolled | |
| 05/25/22 - Chaptered |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 04/27/22- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 05/12/22- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS |
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