Agua Caliente amendment would restructure revenue terms, add devices and extend compact to 2061

Matthew Lee, senior advisor for tribal negotiations in Governor Newsom’s office, told the Senate Committee on Government Organization that the Agua Caliente compact amendment is intended to align state–tribal agreements with federal case law while preserving revenue streams that fund tribal and local services. "There are three important revenue terms...the special distribution fund, the revenue sharing trust fund, [and] the tribal nation grant fund," Lee said, and the amendment includes a "larger lump sum payment and a smaller per‑device variable payment" as a restructuring of obligations to the RSTF.