California Code, Government Code - GOV § 69998

No further fee than that prescribed in this article shall be collected from, or assessed against, any party to any proceeding for the services of a phonographic reporter in taking down in shorthand the testimony and other proceedings in the trial or hearing of any matter as required by law or by order of the court, but a phonographic reporter shall be allowed and unless waived by him shall receive the fees allowed for transcribing his shorthand notes of the testimony and proceedings reported by him, as elsewhere provided by law.