Florida Senate Bill 530 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-4-1)
Status: Failed on March 14 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-03-14 - Died in Innovation, Industry, and Technology
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Creating the Film, Television, and Digital Media Targeted Rebate Program within the Department of Economic Opportunity under the supervision of the Commissioner of Film and Entertainment; authorizing applicants to receive rebates up to a specified amount, including bonuses; requiring an applicant that receives funding to make a good faith effort to use existing providers of infrastructure or equipment in this state and to employ residents of this state; requiring the Florida Film and Entertainment Advisory Council to determine a score for each qualified project using specified criteria, etc.

Entertainment Industry

Senate Commerce and Tourism Committee	Sen. Joe Gruters [R]	Sen. Anitere Flores [R]	Sen. Gary Farmer [D]
Sen. Linda Stewart [D]	Sen. Darryl Rouson [D]	Sen. Janet Cruz [D]	Sen. Lori Berman [D]
Sen. Gayle Harrell [R]	Sen. Audrey Gibson [D]	Sen. Randolph Bracy [D]	Sen. Jason Pizzo [D]
Sen. Ed Hooper [R]	Sen. Victor Torres [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-14	Senate	Died in Innovation, Industry, and Technology
2020-03-14	Senate	Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
2020-01-14	Senate	CS by Commerce and Tourism read 1st time
2020-01-14	Senate	Introduced
2019-12-13	Senate	Now in Innovation, Industry, and Technology
2019-12-12	Senate	Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
2019-12-10	Senate	CS by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 5 NAYS 0
2019-12-02	Senate	On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 12/10/19, 10:00 am, 110 Senate Building
2019-11-01	Senate	Referred to Commerce and Tourism; Innovation, Industry, and Technology; Appropriations
2019-10-16	Senate	Filed

H497 (Similar To) 2020-03-14 - Died in Workforce Development and Tourism Subcommittee

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/530
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/530/BillText/Filed/HTML
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/530/BillText/c1/HTML
Amendment	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/530/Amendment/312954/HTML