Bill Text: TX HB292 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the grant amount awarded to certain moving image projects under the moving image industry incentive program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB292 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB292-Introduced.html
| 89R3741 SCF-D | ||
| By: Gervin-Hawkins | H.B. No. 292 | |
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| relating to the grant amount awarded to certain moving image | ||
| projects under the moving image industry incentive program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 485, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 485.0245 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 485.0245. GRANT AMOUNT FOR CERTAIN MOVING IMAGE | ||
| PROJECTS. (a) This section applies only to the following moving | ||
| image projects with in-state spending of at least $3.5 million: | ||
| (1) a feature film; | ||
| (2) a television program; | ||
| (3) a visual effect project for a feature film or | ||
| television program; or | ||
| (4) a digital interactive media production. | ||
| (b) In calculating the amount of a grant awarded under | ||
| Section 485.024, a moving image project described by Subsection (a) | ||
| is eligible for a grant amount equal to at least 30 percent of: | ||
| (1) the total amount of the project's eligible | ||
| in-state spending, excluding wages of persons who are employed for | ||
| the project; and | ||
| (2) notwithstanding Section 485.024, the amount of | ||
| wages the project paid to state residents employed to work in-state | ||
| on the project. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
