Bill Text: TX HB4539 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to qualifications for participation in the moving image industry incentive program.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-3)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB4539 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4539-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 4539 |
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relating to qualifications for participation in the moving image | ||
industry incentive program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 485.023, Government Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 485.023. QUALIFICATION. To qualify for a grant under | ||
this subchapter: | ||
(1) a production company must have spent a minimum of: | ||
(A) $250,000 in in-state spending for a film or | ||
television program; or | ||
(B) $100,000 in in-state spending for a | ||
commercial or series of commercials, an educational or | ||
instructional video or series of educational or instructional | ||
videos, or a digital interactive media production; | ||
(2) at least 55 [ |
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actors, and extras for a moving image project must be Texas | ||
residents unless the office determines and certifies in writing | ||
that a sufficient number of qualified crew, actors, and extras are | ||
not available to the company at the time principal photography | ||
begins; | ||
(3) at least 60 percent of the moving image project | ||
must be filmed in Texas; and | ||
(4) a production company must submit to the office an | ||
expended budget, in a format prescribed by the office, that | ||
reflects all in-state spending and includes all receipts, invoices, | ||
pay orders, and other documentation considered necessary by the | ||
office to accurately determine the amount of a production company's | ||
in-state spending that has occurred. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 4539 was passed by the House on May 4, | ||
2023, by the following vote: Yeas 117, Nays 27, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 4539 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
17, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 24, Nays 7. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |