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Committee hears AB 918 to exempt mutual‑aid earnings from state income tax for local first responders; referred to suspense file
Summary
AB 918 would exempt payroll earned by local first responders while deployed on mutual-aid responses to declared emergencies from California income tax. Supporters said the exemption would strengthen mutual aid and help retain responders; the committee sent the bill to its suspense file for fiscal review.
Assemblymember Ransom presented AB 918, saying California’s increasing frequency and severity of natural disasters has placed heavy strain on the state’s mutual-aid system and that mutual‑aid earnings are currently taxed as regular income.
Ransom told the committee that mutual-aid deployments “force local agencies to juggle their own needs while responding to large scale disasters in other jurisdictions,” and said…
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