Capitol Briefs: Weed, wildfires, classic cars and Hollywood

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Keeping entertainment jobs in California: With TV and film productions leaving the Golden State, lawmakers in both houses have approved a proposal to strengthen and modernize the state’s tax credit program to try to ensure that the home of Hollywood remains Hollywood executives’ preferred place to shoot.

AB 1138 has passed out of the Assembly while its companion measure SB 630 has passed out of the Senate. The bills, by Assemblymembers Rick Chavez Zbur (D-Hollywood); Isaac Bryan (D-Los Angeles); Sharon Quirk-Silva (D-Fullerton); and Sens. Allen; Perez; Caroline Menjivar (D-San Fernando Valley); and Henry Stern (D-Los Angeles); are identical. (Companion measures – that is, identical bills introduced in both houses of a legislature, are common in some states, but rarer in California’s legislature.)