---
type: "Bill"
title: "Cemeteries: veteran's commemorative property."
description: "Existing law prohibits a cemetery owned and operated by a city, county, or city and county from engaging in the business of selling monuments or markers, and also prohibits the cemetery's officers and employees who manage, operate, or otherwise maintain the cemetery on a day-to-day basis from engaging in the private business of selling monuments or markers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1225"
citation: "California AB 1225 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Cemeteries: veteran's commemorative property."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Veterans Affairs"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 26
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2011-02-18"
last_action: "2012-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/50e6dafb-8383-4f4d-b67b-3e6d4a29db54"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1225"
source_hash: "07c1a76144d8aecaf71680575f17134f3b4a43b42bc77dbad3924c8d3e1d66d5"
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 AB 1225 (20112012) — Cemeteries: veteran's commemorative property.

Existing law prohibits a cemetery owned and operated by a city, county, or city and county from engaging in the business of selling monuments or markers, and also prohibits the cemetery's officers and employees who manage, operate, or otherwise maintain the cemetery on a day-to-day basis from engaging in the private business of selling monuments or markers.

## 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=201120120AB1225&version=20110AB122599INT)
2. **01/04/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1225&version=20110AB122598AMD)
3. **01/24/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1225&version=20110AB122597AMD)
4. **08/06/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1225&version=20110AB122596AMD)
5. **08/09/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1225&version=20110AB122595AMD)
6. **08/16/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1225&version=20110AB122594AMD)
7. **09/29/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1225&version=20110AB122592CHP)
8. **AB1225** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1225)
9. **08/31/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1225&version=20110AB122593ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB1225 Committee on V. A. (Cook) By Correa — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1225 V. A. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By COOK — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1225 V. A. Assembly Third Reading By COOK — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development. — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Veterans Affairs — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2011-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2012-01-04** Referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2012-01-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B., P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-01-04** Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2012-01-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (January 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-01-19** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2012-01-23** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (January 19). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-01-24** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-01-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-01-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 3628.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-01-31** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-02-16** Referred to Coms. on V.A. and B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B., P. & E.D. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-06** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 2). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-06** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-08-08** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. `committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-09** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-16** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4644.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-22** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2012-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6292.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-09-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
- **2012-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 774, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/50e6dafb-8383-4f4d-b67b-3e6d4a29db54`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).