Bill Text: TX HB1126 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the qualifications for incentives for the film, television, and multimedia production industries.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-30 - Left pending in committee [HB1126 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1126-Introduced.html
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| By: Workman | H.B. No. 1126 | |
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| relating to the qualifications for incentives for the film, | ||
| television, and multimedia production industries. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 485.021(2), Government Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (2) "Moving image project" means a visual and sound | ||
| production, including a film, television program, national or | ||
| multistate commercial, educational or instructional video, or | ||
| digital interactive media production. The term does not include a | ||
| production that: | ||
| (A) is obscene, as defined by Section 43.21, | ||
| Penal Code; or | ||
| (B) the office determines will probably on | ||
| completion meet the qualifications for: | ||
| (i) an "R" or "NC-17" rating issued by the | ||
| Motion Picture Association of America, as those qualifications | ||
| existed on September 1, 2015; or | ||
| (ii) an "M" or "A" rating issued by the | ||
| Entertainment Software Rating Board, as those qualifications | ||
| existed on September 1, 2015. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to an application for a grant under Section 485.022(b), Government | ||
| Code, submitted 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 when the application was submitted, | ||
| and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
