Bill Text: TX HB4051 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the criteria for media production development zone recognition.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB4051 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4051-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 4051 | ||
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| relating to the criteria for media production development zone | ||
| recognition. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 485A.101, Government Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 485A.101. CRITERIA FOR MEDIA PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT | ||
| ZONE RECOGNITION. To be approved as a media production development | ||
| zone, an area: | ||
| (1) must be in a metropolitan statistical area, the | ||
| principal municipality of which[ |
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| infrastructure, facilities, or resources to support the production | ||
| and completion of moving image projects; | ||
| (2) must be recognized as a media production | ||
| development zone by ordinance or order, as appropriate, of a | ||
| municipality or the commissioners court of a county; and | ||
| (3) will contain a qualified media production location | ||
| within its geographical boundaries that meets the criteria under | ||
| Section 485A.102. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to an application for designation submitted under Section 485A.106, | ||
| Government Code, on or after the effective date of this Act. An | ||
| application submitted before the effective date of this Act is | ||
| governed by the law in effect on the date the application was | ||
| submitted, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
| purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 4051 was passed by the House on May 2, | ||
| 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 121, Nays 20, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 4051 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 17, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 27, Nays 4. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
