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San Antonio committee backs update to local film incentive, including 10% base rebate and local-hire uplifts
Summary
The Community Health Committee voted to approve updates to the San Antonio Film Incentive program that raise the base rebate to 10%, add uplifts for hiring San Antonio residents and veterans, expand eligibility to commercials, and add a workforce-development requirement; the program remains funded from a $250,000 hotel-occupancy-tax allocation.
The San Antonio Community Health Committee on Oct. 23 approved recommended updates to the city's film incentive program intended to make San Antonio more competitive as state-level film funding grows.
Crystal Jones, a representative of the San Antonio Film Commission (part of the Department of Arts and Culture), told the committee the commission wants to rename and revise the program to "San Antonio Film Incentive," raise the base rebate from 7.5% to 10%, and add two 2-percentage-point uplifts tied to local hiring and veteran hiring. Jones also proposed expanding eligibility to include commercials and adding a workforce-development condition to incentive payments.
The change matters because the state has substantially increased film incentive funding in recent legislative cycles, Jones said, and local rebates influence whether productions choose to shoot here. Jones noted San Antonio's program is funded from hotel-occupancy-tax revenue and budgeted at $250,000 a year; the proposed changes do not increase that…
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