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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Civil procedure: contempt."
+description: "Existing law requires courts to refer minors under 16 years of age who refuse to testify in a court proceeding to a probation officer, as specified, and to receive a recommendation and report from that probation officer, before imposing a sanction for contempt, except as specified."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20112012"
+identifier: "SB 1248"
+citation: "California SB 1248 (20112012)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Civil procedure: contempt."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alquist"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2012-02-23"
+last_action: "2012-08-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/97c0ff81-85b2-4a36-8b38-96daaef457c2"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1248"
+source_hash: "2c98b6cb520d8b3273628c2e1d493afeacf91288610545d3279de476ce23e3ee"
+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 1248 (20112012) — Civil procedure: contempt.
+
+Existing law requires courts to refer minors under 16 years of age who refuse to testify in a court proceeding to a probation officer, as specified, and to receive a recommendation and report from that probation officer, before imposing a sanction for contempt, except as specified.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/23/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1248&version=20110SB124899INT)
+2. **04/17/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1248&version=20110SB124898AMD)
+3. **05/01/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1248&version=20110SB124897AMD)
+4. **05/29/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1248&version=20110SB124896AMD)
+5. **08/29/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1248&version=20110SB124894CHP)
+6. **SB1248** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1248)
+7. **08/16/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1248&version=20110SB124895ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 1248 Alquist Consent Calendar Second Day — **79–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
+- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Special Consent #12 — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alquist — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2012-02-23** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2012-02-24** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 25.
+- **2012-03-08** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2012-03-20** Set for hearing April 10.
+- **2012-04-04** Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
+- **2012-04-11** Set for hearing April 24.
+- **2012-04-17** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2012-04-30** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3312.) (April 24). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2012-05-01** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2012-05-04** Set for hearing May 14.
+- **2012-05-14** Placed on APPR. suspense file.
+- **2012-05-18** Set for hearing May 24.
+- **2012-05-25** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3594.) (May 24). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2012-05-29** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
+- **2012-05-29** Ordered to special consent calendar.
+- **2012-05-31** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3749.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2012-05-31** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2012-06-15** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2012-06-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2012-08-09** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 8). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2012-08-13** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2012-08-16** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5968.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2012-08-16** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
+- **2012-08-17** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
+- **2012-08-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2012-08-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 223, Statutes of 2012.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/97c0ff81-85b2-4a36-8b38-96daaef457c2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+