AB 389 California Assembly · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Personal Income Tax: tax credits: fire-resistant home improvements.

Summary
The Personal Income Tax Law allows various credits against the taxes imposed by that law. This bill would allow a credit against those taxes for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2030, to a qualified taxpayer, as defined, in an amount equal to 40% of the taxpayer's qualified expenses, as defined, not to exceed $400 per taxable year, or $2,000 cumulatively. Existing law requires any bill authorizing a new tax credit to contain, among other things, specific goals, purposes, and objectives that the tax credit will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements. The bill would also include additional information required for any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Bill status failed 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Feb 3, 2025 Last action Feb 2, 2026
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04/07/25 - Amended Assembly AB389 · 1 edit
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No substantive policy changes were made between these two versions of AB 389. The diff reflects a reformatting of the bill from a traditional legislative document layout (with line numbers, page headers, and column formatting) into a web page presentation with navigation elements. All statutory language, credit amounts, eligibility criteria, dates, and sunset provisions remain identical.
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Total actions
9
Key actions
3
Committee
6
Amendments
1
Feb 2, 2026
Lower · Passed
From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
lower
May 5, 2025
Lower · Passed
In committee: Set, first hearing. Held under submission.
lower
Apr 8, 2025
Committee
Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
lower
Apr 7, 2025
Introduced
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. Read second time and amended.
lower
Mar 17, 2025
Committee
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to REV. & TAX. suspense file.
lower
Feb 18, 2025
Committee
Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
lower
Feb 4, 2025
Lower · Passed
From printer. May be heard in committee March 6.
lower
1 primary · 17 co-sponsors

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