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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
2. 01/04/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/05/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/06/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/24/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/17/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB661 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/05/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/a170aef8-b176-4f69-b4ab-fe5b6471fd1f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).