By: Sparks S.B. No. 1905
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to 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
municiopality of which:
(A) has a population of more than 250,000; and
(1) (B) has must have the adequate workforce,
insfrastructure, 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 count; and
(3) will contain a qualified media production location within
its geographical boundaries that meets the criteria under Section
485A.102.
SECTION 2. Section 485A.103(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 485A.103. MAXIMUM NUMBER OF ZONES AND LOCATIONS
THROUGHOUT THE STATE. (a) There may not be more than1020 media
production development zone designations under this chapter at any
one time.
SECTION 3. 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 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.