20250AB__157996AMD INTRODUCED 2026-01-13 AMENDED_ASSEMBLY 2026-03-03 AMENDED_ASSEMBLY 2026-04-29 AMENDED_SENATE 2026-07-02 2025 AB AMD Introduced by Assembly Member Valencia <caml:Contribution>LEAD_AUTHOR</caml:Contribution><caml:House>ASSEMBLY</caml:House><caml:Name>Ramos</caml:Name></caml:Legislator>"?> LEAD_AUTHOR ASSEMBLY Valencia

An act to add

Section 12012.123 to the Government Code, relating to tribal gaming, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. tribal gaming, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately 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 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 Children’s 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.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>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.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>Existing law requires the pilot program to be implemented for years from the date grant recipients are selected.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>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.</xhtml:p>"?> TWO_THIRDS NO YES NO YES YES NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION

Section 12012.123 is added to the Government Code , to read: 12012.123. (

a) The amendment to the tribal-state gaming compact entered into in accordance with the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 (18 U.S.C. Secs. 1166 to 1168, inclusive, and U.S.C.

Sec. 2701 et seq.) between the State of California and the Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation, executed on June 23, 2026, is hereby ratified. (b)

(1) In deference to tribal sovereignty, none of the following shall be deemed a project for purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (Division 13 (commencing with

Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code): (

A) The execution of an amendment to the tribal-state gaming compact ratified by this section. (

B) The execution of the amended tribal-state gaming compact ratified by this section. (

C) The execution of an intergovernmental agreement between a tribe and a county or city government negotiated pursuant to the express authority of, or as expressly referenced in, the amended tribal-state gaming compact ratified by this section. (

D) The execution of an intergovernmental agreement between a tribe and the Department of Transportation, or other state agency, negotiated pursuant to the express authority of, or as expressly referenced in, the amended tribal-state gaming compact ratified by this section. (

E) The on-reservation impacts of compliance with the terms of the amended tribal-state gaming compact ratified by this section.

(2) Except as expressly provided in this section, this subdivision does not exempt a city, county, or city and county, or the Department of Transportation, or any state agency or local jurisdiction, from the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (Division 13 (commencing with

Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code).

SEC. 2. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of

Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are: In order to enhance the economic development, stability, and self-sufficiency of the Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation, and to protect the interests of the tribe and its members, the surrounding community, and the California public at the earliest possible time, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately. All matter omitted in this version of the bill appears in the bill as amended in the Assembly, April 29, 2026. (JR11)