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Bill	Attorney's fees: book accounts.	Under existing law, in any action on a contract based on a book account, as defined, that does not provide for attorney's fees and costs, the prevailing party on the contract is entitled to reasonable attorney's fees and costs, and the court is required to fix the attorney's fees in an amount that does not exceed the lesser of $800 for book accounts that are maintained for personal, family, or household purposes of a natural person, and $1,000 for book accounts that are maintained for all other purposes, or 25% of the principal obligation owing on the contract, as applicable.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 363	California SB 363 (20152016)	bill	Attorney's fees: book accounts.	enacted	Morrell	4	16	4	2015-02-24	2015-07-13	openstates	ocd-bill/52536443-7315-44ed-9e34-139d25ea5c06	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB363	06a47aa475762ee470d066b7266fe42e2ab78c18ea309bf297d91fd59567baf0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 363 (20152016) — Attorney's fees: book accounts.

Under existing law, in any action on a contract based on a book account, as defined, that does not provide for attorney's fees and costs, the prevailing party on the contract is entitled to reasonable attorney's fees and costs, and the court is required to fix the attorney's fees in an amount that does not exceed the lesser of $800 for book accounts that are maintained for personal, family, or household purposes of a natural person, and $1,000 for book accounts that are maintained for all other purposes, or 25% of the principal obligation owing on the contract, as applicable.

Version chain

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

1. 02/24/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 07/13/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. SB363 (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/30/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 363 Morrell Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Morrell — primary (person)
• Anderson — coauthor (person)
• Gaines — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-24 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2015-02-25 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
• 2015-03-05 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2015-05-01 Set for hearing May 12.
• 2015-05-13 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 982.) (May 12). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-14 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1071.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-22 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2015-06-04 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2015-06-23 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-06-24 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2178.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-29 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2015-07-01 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
• 2015-07-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-07-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 80, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/52536443-7315-44ed-9e34-139d25ea5c06. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).