AB 1579: Tribal gaming: compact ratification.

Session Year: 2025-2026
House: Assembly
Latest Version Date: 2026-07-02

Current Status:

In Progress

(2026-08-12: Read second time. Ordered to third reading.)

Introduced

In Committee

Awaiting First Chamber Vote

Passed First Chamber

In Committee

Awaiting Second Chamber Vote

Passed Second Chamber

Enacted

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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 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 amendment to the tribal-state gaming compact entered into between the State of California and the Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation executed on June 23, 2026. The bill would provide that, in deference to tribal sovereignty, certain actions related to that amended compact are not projects for purposes of CEQA.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services (department), jointly with the State Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), to establish the Childrens Crisis Continuum Pilot Program. Existing law requires the department, jointly with DHCS, to award grants under the pilot program and requires participating entities to develop a highly integrated continuum of care for the foster youth served in the pilot program. Under existing law, that continuum of care is required to include certain components, including, among others, a crisis residential program that is operated in accordance with all statutes and regulations governing its licensure category. Existing law requires the department, jointly with DHCS, by April 1, 2027, to submit an interim report on the pilot program to the report to the Assembly Committee on Human Services and the Senate Committee on Human Services.This bill would authorize a participating entity that does not have a crisis residential program as a part of its continuum of care to satisfy the requirement to have a crisis residential program by including in its continuum of care by having a comparable residential treatment component designed to serve children and youth experiencing the highest level of acute behavioral health needs. The bill would require the comparable residential treatment component to satisfy certain requirements, including providing short-term, intensive, and highly individualized services to stabilize youth in crisis. The bill would require the department to determine whether a proposed component satisfies these requirements. The bill would also require the department to include specified information relating to these provisions in its interim report.Existing law requires the pilot program to be implemented for 5 years from the date grant recipients are selected.This bill would, notwithstanding that provision, authorize the department, in consultation with DHCS, and upon written request of a participating entity, to extend the term of a grant agreement if a participating entity demonstrates that it has unexpended and available grants funds and that the extension is necessary to complete implementation or closeout activities. The bill would limit the extension to the minimum amount of time necessary to complete authorized activities and expend grant funds, and to not later than July 1, 2030.

Discussed in Hearing