The Motion Picture Editors Guild has backed California Assembly Bill 2319, calling for a separate tax incentive for post-production work as the state’s screen industry continues to contract. The proposed 35% to 50% credit would aim to keep editing, visual effects, sound and other finishing work in California even when filming takes place elsewhere, helping protect jobs and industry health-care eligibility.

The guild says hundreds of active members have had no union employment for more than three years, while the proportion of post-production workers with industry health coverage has fallen 23% in four years. California is competing with incentives in other US states and countries including Canada, the UK and Ireland; meanwhile, FilmLA reported total on-location shoot days fell 13% year on year in the second quarter of 2026, with television down 28%.