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type: "Bill"
title: "Civil actions: interpreter costs."
description: "Existing law enumerates costs that a prevailing party in a civil action may recover. Existing law allows a prevailing party to recover court interpreter fees under specified conditions. Existing law also allows recovery of certain costs related to depositions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 1002"
citation: "California AB 1002 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Civil actions: interpreter costs."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wilk"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2015-02-26"
last_action: "2015-07-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c3d1f226-fd81-473f-96b9-1bd91d3f65b4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1002"
source_hash: "650b9ebc314377e80fb7cc7ca6bb85246d355025cabacafc2090ba489c78654f"
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 1002 (20152016) — Civil actions: interpreter costs.
Existing law enumerates costs that a prevailing party in a civil action may recover. Existing law allows a prevailing party to recover court interpreter fees under specified conditions. Existing law also allows recovery of certain costs related to depositions.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/26/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1002&version=20150AB100299INT)
2. **04/28/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1002&version=20150AB100298AMD)
3. **05/07/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1002&version=20150AB100297AMD)
4. **07/14/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1002&version=20150AB100295CHP)
5. **AB1002** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1002)
6. **06/29/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1002&version=20150AB100296ENR)
## Votes
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **370** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — **100** (pass) · lower
- AB 1002 WILK Consent Calendar Second Day — **780** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Wilk — primary (person)
- Alejo — author (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-02-26** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-02-27** From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
- **2015-03-19** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-15** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2015-04-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-29** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-06** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 5). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-05-07** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-11** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1452.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-28** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-18** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-06-19** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-06-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1618.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-06-25** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2015-07-02** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
- **2015-07-14** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-07-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 90, Statutes of 2015.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c3d1f226-fd81-473f-96b9-1bd91d3f65b4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).