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Bill	Mortgages: default procedures: trustee's or attorney's fees.	Existing law regarding mortgages generally authorizes a beneficiary, trustee, mortgagee, or his or her agent or successor in interest to demand and receive from a trustor, mortgagor, or his or her agent or successor in interest, or any beneficiary under a subordinate deed of trust, or any other person having a subordinate lien or encumbrance of record those reasonable costs and expenses, as allowed, that are actually incurred in enforcing the terms of the obligation from the date of the notice of sale until the property is sold. This authorization includes trustee's or attorney's fees in an amount not exceeding $475 if the unpaid principal sum secured is $150,000 or less, or $410, if the unpaid principal sum secured exceeds $150,000 plus a percentage of the unpaid principal sum secured exceeding $50,000, plus specified increasing additional amounts based on the unpaid principal.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 479	California SB 479 (20172018)	bill	Mortgages: default procedures: trustee's or attorney's fees.	enacted	Morrell	7	24	2	2017-02-16	2017-09-01	openstates	ocd-bill/6655bad4-65a4-4646-9fc8-ed0f65874e9b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB479	71a2b80fd9cee4baf669007daf0a7c70d383661f7e03185d31ec4c58275a2341	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 479 (20172018) — Mortgages: default procedures: trustee's or attorney's fees.

Existing law regarding mortgages generally authorizes a beneficiary, trustee, mortgagee, or his or her agent or successor in interest to demand and receive from a trustor, mortgagor, or his or her agent or successor in interest, or any beneficiary under a subordinate deed of trust, or any other person having a subordinate lien or encumbrance of record those reasonable costs and expenses, as allowed, that are actually incurred in enforcing the terms of the obligation from the date of the notice of sale until the property is sold. This authorization includes trustee's or attorney's fees in an amount not exceeding $475 if the unpaid principal sum secured is $150,000 or less, or $410, if the unpaid principal sum secured exceeds $150,000 plus a percentage of the unpaid principal sum secured exceeding $50,000, plus specified increasing additional amounts based on the unpaid principal.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/27/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/15/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/15/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/01/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB479 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/23/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB479 Morrell Concurrence — 38–1 (pass) · upper
• SB 479 Morrell Senate Third Reading By CHEN — 73–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Morrell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-16 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2017-02-17 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
• 2017-03-02 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-03-27 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-04-13 Set for hearing May 2.
• 2017-04-17 May 2 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2017-04-18 Set for hearing May 9.
• 2017-05-11 From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1021.) (May 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-05-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-15 Published May 15 at 2 p.m.
• 2017-05-18 From consent calendar on motion of Senator Morrell.
• 2017-05-18 Ordered to third reading.
• 2017-05-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 1. Page 1256.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-31 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-06-08 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-06-15 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-06-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-07-17 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 1. Page 2577.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-07-18 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2017-08-21 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 1. Page 2171.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-08-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2017-09-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-09-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 217, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6655bad4-65a4-4646-9fc8-ed0f65874e9b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).