republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/sb-462.md

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Bill	Employment: compensation.	Existing law, except as specified, requires a court in any action brought for the nonpayment of wages, fringe benefits, or health and welfare or pension fund contributions, to award reasonable attorney's fees and costs to the prevailing party if any party to the action requests attorney's fees and costs upon the initiation of the action.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	SB 462	California SB 462 (20132014)	bill	Employment: compensation.	enacted	Monning	4	21	7	2013-02-21	2013-08-26	openstates	ocd-bill/bf2d2aa7-b73e-4d10-b8dd-338e024937b3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB462	d7172e564ea20a99e32b9f5334401f6861e8290d2ee7711d659bfef3728d0cb0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 462 (20132014) — Employment: compensation.

Existing law, except as specified, requires a court in any action brought for the nonpayment of wages, fringe benefits, or health and welfare or pension fund contributions, to award reasonable attorney's fees and costs to the prevailing party if any party to the action requests attorney's fees and costs upon the initiation of the action.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/21/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 08/26/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. SB462 (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/13/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary. — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 26–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 7–3 (pass) · lower
• SB 462 Monning Senate Third Reading By DICKINSON — 49–26 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Monning — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-21 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. reading-1, introduction
• 2013-02-22 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
• 2013-03-11 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2013-04-12 Set for hearing April 23.
• 2013-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 663.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-04-26 Set for hearing May 6.
• 2013-05-06 Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2013-05-17 Set for hearing May 23.
• 2013-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1014.) (May 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 9. Page 1156.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-30 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2013-06-17 Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2013-06-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-07-02 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (July 2). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-07-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-08-12 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 49. Noes 26. Page 2508.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-08-12 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2013-08-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:45 a.m.
• 2013-08-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-08-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 142, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bf2d2aa7-b73e-4d10-b8dd-338e024937b3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).