The California Assembly has voted 73-0 to approve legislation that would boost funding for entertainment industry job-training programs. The bill, which now goes to the state Senate, would increase funding by $1 million to train high schoolers and community college students for below-the-line jobs. The bill, AB 1664…

The last votes finally have been counted, and Raul Bocanegra — who co-authored the bill to increase California's Film & Television Tax Credit Program this year — has gone down to defeat. The final tally in the race to represent California's 39th Assembly District shows political newcomer Patty Lopez receiving 22,750…

UPDATED, 5:58 PM: Don’t write off Raul Bocanegra just yet. Nearly a week after it looked like the co-author of California’s tax incentives bill was going to lose Assembly his seat to a political novice, he has trimmed the deficit to single digits. That’s votes, not percentage points. In one of the tightest elections…

Diane Haithman is a Deadline Hollywood Contributor Today at a California Film & Television Production Alliance rally in Sunland, CA, state assemblyman Raul Bocanegra (D-Pacoima), who co-authored the legislation for an increase in California’s $100 million Film and TV Tax Credit Program, called the crowd to action…