SACRAMENTO, CA – Today, Democratic Caucus Chair and Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur (D-Hollywood) issued the following statement in response to the killing of two Israeli diplomatic staffers outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.:
SACRAMENTO, CA – Today, the Chairs of California Legislative Diversity Caucuses announced AB 715, legislation aimed at strengthening protections for K–12 students against antisemitism and discrimination.
Sacramento, CA - Today, Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur (D-Hollywood) and State Senator Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica), along with joint authors Assemblymember Isaac Bryan (D-Los Angeles) and Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva (D-Fullerton), and Senator Caroline Menjivar (D-San Fernando Valley), Senator Sasha Renee Perez (D-Pasadena) and Senator Henry Stern (D-Los Angeles), held a press conference uniting legislators, workers, small businesses, industry leaders and more behind the California Film & TV Jobs Act, AB 1138 & AB 630.
Assemblymember Zbur honored Lester Friedman on the Assembly Floor on California Holocaust Remembrance Day.
State Legislators rally around bills AB 1138 (Zbur) and SB 630 (Allen) in a joint effort to modernize and expand California's Film & Television Tax Credit to save jobs, protect small businesses, and keep Hollywood in California.
AB 1138, authored by Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur, Assemblymember Isaac Bryan and Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva, along with companion bill SB 630, authored by Senator Ben Allen, will strengthen and modernize the California Film & Television Tax Credit, keeping productions and jobs in California.
AB 1138 and SB 630, introduced by Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur and Senator Ben Allen, with joint authorship from Assemblymembers Isaac Bryan and Sharon Quirk-Silva and Senators Caroline Menjivar and Henry Stern, will strengthen and modernize the California Film & TV Tax Credit, keeping productions and jobs in California.
The California Legislature has acknowledged that money alone might not be enough to entice production back to the state, introducing a pair of bills Wednesday aimed at bolstering Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan to expand the state's Film and Television Tax Credit Program.
The bills, sponsored by state Sen. Ben Allen and Assembly members Rick Chavez Zbur and Isaac Bryan, are meant to "amend, update, and modernize" the current program beyond Newsom's commitment to increase the tax credits from their present level of $330 million a year to around $750 million annually.
