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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Crime: picketing."
+description: "Existing law makes it a crime for a person to disturb, obstruct, detain, or interfere with any person carrying or accompanying human remains to a cemetery or funeral establishment, or engaged in a funeral service or an interment."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20112012"
+identifier: "SB 661"
+citation: "California SB 661 (20112012)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Crime: picketing."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Lieu"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2011-02-18"
+last_action: "2012-09-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a170aef8-b176-4f69-b4ab-fe5b6471fd1f"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB661"
+source_hash: "f987a5a7cc3e469c1fc0dc38e409e87f08f374f3f79c26f5f6745e6f30cab188"
+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 661 (20112012) — Crime: picketing.
+
+Existing law makes it a crime for a person to disturb, obstruct, detain, or interfere with any person carrying or accompanying human remains to a cemetery or funeral establishment, or engaged in a funeral service or an interment.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/18/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB661&version=20110SB66199INT)
+2. **01/04/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB661&version=20110SB66198AMD)
+3. **07/05/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB661&version=20110SB66197AMD)
+4. **08/06/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB661&version=20110SB66196AMD)
+5. **08/24/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB661&version=20110SB66195AMD)
+6. **09/17/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB661&version=20110SB66193CHP)
+7. **SB661** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB661)
+8. **09/05/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB661&version=20110SB66194ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass. — **16–1** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **5–1** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- SB 661 Lieu Senate Third Reading By SWANSON — **77–2** (pass) · lower
+- Unfinished Business SB661 Lieu Concurrence — **34–2** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Lieu — primary (person)
+- Anderson — coauthor (person)
+- Cook — principal coauthor (person)
+- Fuller — coauthor (person)
+- Huffman — coauthor (person)
+- Jeffries — coauthor (person)
+- Rubio — principal coauthor (person)
+- Strickland — coauthor (person)
+- Vargas — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2011-02-18** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2011-02-19** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
+- **2011-03-03** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2011-12-15** Set for hearing January 10.
+- **2012-01-04** 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`
+- **2012-01-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 2624.) (January 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2012-01-11** Set for hearing January 17.
+- **2012-01-17** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 2669.) (January 17). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2012-01-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2012-01-26** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2716.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2012-01-26** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2012-04-19** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2012-06-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2012-07-03** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (July 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2012-07-05** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2012-08-06** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2012-08-09** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 1.) (August 8). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2012-08-13** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2012-08-24** Read third time and amended. (Page 6250.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
+- **2012-08-24** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2012-08-28** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 2. Page 6443.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2012-08-28** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
+- **2012-08-30** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 2. Page 5021.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2012-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 9:45 a.m.
+- **2012-09-17** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2012-09-17** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 354, Statutes of 2012.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a170aef8-b176-4f69-b4ab-fe5b6471fd1f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+