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Overall, the deals will allow the tribes to install nearly 17,000 new slot machines and other table games.
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The governor also signed a deal allowing the Yurok tribe to install up to 99 slot machines at their reservation near Klamath in Del Norte County. The 5,000-member tribe is the state's largest but also among its poorest.
California tribes already operate 58,120 slot machines across the state and last year took in an estimated $7.7 billion in revenue. By comparison, Nevada's casinos took in revenue of $12.6 billion in 2006.
The new law ends a war between two of the state's most powerful special interests groups—tribes and labor unions. California's tribes won, handily.
Unions had opposed most of the casino expansion bills, saying they did not provide enough protection for workers to organize labor groups.
State House Democrats, who have close ties to labor unions, held up the legislation for almost a year, but approved them last month after the tribes agreed to additional provisions that may allow the state to better monitor whether tribes are paying taxes properly.
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