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State Sen. Ben Allen, D-Santa Monica, and Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur, D-Hollywood, have introducedAB/SB 186, a budget trailer bill aimed at protecting middle-class jobs tied to film and television production in the state.

It’s a well-known misconception that absolutely everyone who works in film and TVhas earned Scrooge McDuck levels of wealth from doing it — they do not. But California state and the City of Los Angeles have long taken that for granted that, even when productions go elsewhere to shoot films or TV shows, they’ll come…

Sacramento, CA (September 1, 2026)—California’s Senate and Assembly have passed a bill that offers tax incentives designed to attract film and TV post production work to the state. It now goes to Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk for his signature.

The California production community can breathe a sigh of relief: State lawmakers have officially introduced a bill meant to allow studios a few key exemptions from a recently enacted restriction on corporate tax credits.

California Post opinion editor Joel Pollak joins ‘Varney & Co.’ to discuss Gov. Gavin Newsom’s wealth tax proposal and a major California SNAP fraud investigation.