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.