Thanks for the reply. I am using the downloaded/desktop version.
I just discovered that when you do the walk through for California taxes, toward the end, in the "Other tax situations" section, there is an item called "Special Processing Conditions." When you click on that, first it asks you if you were out of the country on April 15 and on the next page it asks you if you experienced a disaster and there is a blank in which to enter the name of the disaster.
If I then click on forms, I can see that TurboTax entered the name of the disaster under "Special condition text" in section VI of the Info Worksheet. And on the worksheet above the box for the disaster name it states "prints at the top of form 540," which is exactly what California says you should do.
So you're right that there is a form for this, but there is actually an entry, as I described, in the regular walk through that handles it without having to go to the form.
So TurboTax (at least desktop version) does handle this. I don't know about for other states, but at least for California I can verify this.
