AB 1698 California Assembly · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Personal Income Tax Law: Corporation Tax Law: credits: food handler card.

Summary

The Personal Income Tax Law and Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2029, would allow a credit for expenses paid or incurred by a qualified taxpayer for an employee obtaining a food handler card, as specified. Existing law requires any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure to contain, among other things, specific goals, purposes, and objectives that the tax expenditure will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements. This bill also would include additional information required for any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2026

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Feb 3, 2026 Last action Apr 27, 2026

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03/09/26 - Amended Assembly → AB1698 · 1 edit

MINOR

No substantive policy changes were made between these two versions of AB 1698. The diff reflects a reformatting of the bill text from a traditional printed legislative document layout to a web-based display format, including the addition of navigation elements and page structure. The actual statutory language, credit amounts, eligibility criteria, and effective dates remain identical.

TECHNICAL

The bill text was reformatted from a printed legislative document style (with line numbers, page headers, and traditional layout) to a web-based display format with navigation menus, search tools, and structured headings. No changes to the substantive policy language were made.

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Committee

Amendments

Apr 27, 2026

Lower · Passed

In committee: Set, second hearing. Held under submission.

lower

Mar 16, 2026

Committee

In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to REV. & TAX. suspense file.

lower

Mar 10, 2026

Committee

Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.

lower

Mar 9, 2026

Introduced

From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. Read second time and amended.

lower

Feb 17, 2026

Committee

Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.

lower

Feb 4, 2026

Lower · Passed

From printer. May be heard in committee March 6.

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors