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House expands Motion Picture Incentive Fund, removes sunset and adds digital media
Summary
The Utah House on Feb. 22 approved first substitute HB 99 to extend and revise the state Motion Picture Incentive Fund: it removes the sunset, sets a 20% base incentive with a 5% tourism 'kicker' for eligible productions, and brings digital media under the program; the measure passed 57-12 and will go to the Senate.
Representative Hughes, sponsor of the first substitute to House Bill 99, told the House the measure removes a scheduled sunset on Utah’s Motion Picture Incentive Fund and adjusts payout terms to increase predictability for productions.
"So we removed the sunset provision," Hughes said, arguing that certainty is necessary to attract long-running television and digital-media projects. He said the bill sets a 20 percent base rebate and creates "a 5% kicker" to raise the incentive to 25 percent when…
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