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Bill	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.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 1248	California SB 1248 (20112012)	bill	Civil procedure: contempt.	enacted	Alquist	7	26	7	2012-02-23	2012-08-29	openstates	ocd-bill/97c0ff81-85b2-4a36-8b38-96daaef457c2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1248	2c98b6cb520d8b3273628c2e1d493afeacf91288610545d3279de476ce23e3ee	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. 04/17/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/01/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/29/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/29/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB1248 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/16/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/97c0ff81-85b2-4a36-8b38-96daaef457c2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).