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Q: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''California Compact Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

Congress finds the following:
(1) With the passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act
(25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.), Congress provided a statutory basis
for the operation of gaming by federally recognized Indian
tribes as a means of promoting tribal economic development,
self-sufficiency, and strong tribal governments.
(2) The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act defines three classes
of gaming, specifying that class III gaming may only be
conducted in States that have authorized gaming and pursuant to
Tribal-State compacts negotiated in good faith through the
government-to-government relationship between federally
recognized Indian tribes and States.
(3) With the passage of Proposition 1A in 2000, the voters
of California amended the State Constitution to authorize the
operation of class III gaming by federally recognized Indian
tribes on Indian lands in California in accordance with Federal
law. Proposition 1A also authorized the Governor of California
to negotiate gaming compacts with such tribes, subject to
ratification by the State legislature.
(4) Under California law, actions by the State legislature,
including the ratification of gaming compacts, are subject to
California's referendum process. Under that process, the State
legislature's ratification of a gaming compact does not go into
effect if California voters qualify a referendum vote on that
compact. If such a referendum is qualified, the Compact only
goes into effect after voter approval of the legislature's
decision.
(5) This referendum process serves as a form of democratic
oversight of the California Governor and State legislature.
(6) In passing the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, Congress
intended to respect the individual States' authority to
determine their own public policy and to negotiate and conclude
gaming compacts pursuant to each State's laws.
(7) The Tribal-State gaming compact process in California
is undermined if the Secretary of the Interior prescribes
Federal procedures under which class III gaming may be
conducted on the land made eligible for Indian gaming pursuant
to section 20(b)(1)(A) of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25
U.S.C. 2719 (b)(1)(A)), when the compact for gaming on that
land was not ratified by the State Legislature or was rejected
by a constitutionally called referendum.
(8) Congress reaffirms the importance of section
20(b)(1)(A) of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C.
2719(b)(1)(A)), the statutory authority by which federally
recognized Indian tribes can acquire certain gaming lands
eligible for gaming purposes outside of their reservation
boundaries. This section provides State and tribal governments
with the flexibility to locate tribal government gaming
facilities on newly acquired land at the most appropriate
locations. However, Congress did not intend for this section to
allow for tribal gaming facilities on after-acquired lands over
the express objection of the voters of the State.
(9) It is in the interest of the Federal Government,
States, and federally recognized Indian tribes that Congress
require that, in California, off-reservation gaming proposals
be subject to the full ratification and referendum process
established by California State law.

SEC. 3. LIMITATION ON ACTION BY THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ABSENT A
VALID COMPACT.

(a) Prohibition on Certain Class III Gaming.--Section 11(d)(7)(B)
of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2710(d)(7)(B)) is
amended by inserting after clause (vii) the following:
''(viii) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, for any
land in California on which Indian gaming was authorized under (25
U.S.C. 2719(b)(1)(A)) and for which the Legislature of the State of
California did not ratify a proposed class III Tribal-State gaming
compact or for which the electorate of California rejected the approval
of a class III Tribal-State gaming compact through a constitutionally
valid referendum, the Secretary may not--
''(I) prescribe class III gaming procedures;
''(II) approve a class III gaming compact; or
''(III) consider a class III gaming compact to have been
approved by the Secretary, if the Secretary does not approve or
disapprove the compact before the date that is 45 days after
the date on which the compact is submitted.''.
(b) Clarification.--Nothing in this Act or the amendment made by
subsection (a) shall be interpreted to impact the implementation of
authorities under the Act of June 18, 1934 (commonly known as the
''Indian Reorganization Act''), or any other section of the Indian
Gaming Regulatory Act.
(c) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall be
effective as of April 27, 2016.
A:
California Compact Protection Act This bill amends the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to prohibit the Department of the Interior from allowing certain gaming on California land for which a proposed gaming compact was not ratified by the state or for which the electorate rejected a gaming compact.