Legislation: batch E — CA TN VA VT WA WI WV WY

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/sb-1091.md

@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Witness testimony: support persons."
+description: "Existing law authorizes a prosecuting witness in cases involving specified crimes, including, among others, murder, kidnapping, robbery, assault, and rape, to have up to 2 persons of his or her own choosing for support at a preliminary hearing and at trial, or at a juvenile court proceeding, during the testimony of the prosecuting witness."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20112012"
+identifier: "SB 1091"
+citation: "California SB 1091 (20112012)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Witness testimony: support persons."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Pavley"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2012-02-15"
+last_action: "2012-07-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c8ed04e3-d37c-4d04-b8e2-872e335b9ab2"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1091"
+source_hash: "1ca930c1f522a1e8f714f36ed6e4d062d1df963994c1246a2d9c1bcf0333e4a2"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California SB 1091 (20112012) — Witness testimony: support persons.
+
+Existing law authorizes a prosecuting witness in cases involving specified crimes, including, among others, murder, kidnapping, robbery, assault, and rape, to have up to 2 persons of his or her own choosing for support at a preliminary hearing and at trial, or at a juvenile court proceeding, during the testimony of the prosecuting witness.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/15/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1091&version=20110SB109199INT)
+2. **07/17/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1091&version=20110SB109197CHP)
+3. **SB1091** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1091)
+4. **07/03/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1091&version=20110SB109198ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- SB 1091 Pavley Consent Calendar Second Day — **80–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Pavley — primary (person)
+- Lieu — author (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2012-02-15** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2012-02-16** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
+- **2012-03-01** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2012-03-13** Set for hearing April 17.
+- **2012-04-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3208.) (April 17). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2012-04-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2012-04-23** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3241.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2012-04-23** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2012-06-14** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2012-06-26** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2012-06-27** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2012-07-02** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 5564.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2012-07-02** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
+- **2012-07-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
+- **2012-07-17** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2012-07-17** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 148, Statutes of 2012.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c8ed04e3-d37c-4d04-b8e2-872e335b9ab2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+