Friday, August 1st 2014
BRING HOLLYWOOD HOME FOUNDATION URGES
AMENDING AB #1839
THE ASSEMBLY BILL IS DISCRIMINATORY AGAINST INDEPENDENT PRODUCTIONS
AND ISN’T BIG ENOUGH TO STOP JOB OUTSOURCING AND SAVE JOBS IN CALIFORNIA
(CALIFORNIA HAS LOST MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF JOBS BECAUSE OF LIMITED TAX CREDIT INCENTIVES PASSED SINCE 2009)
Sharon Hardee Jimenez Founder President Bring Hollywood Home Foundation & Bill Duke Secretary Bring Hollywood Home Foundation
raising awareness of lost jobs due to runaway production urging new tax credit incentives
Director/Producer/Actor Bill Duke urges amending AB #1839 to make the bill competitive with other states and countries
Bill Duke says independent artists deserve the tax credit incentives as much as anyone else. “We must be with the future. We must support our young people. We need you to help us.” Bill Duke Secretary Bring Hollywood Home Foundation.
Raising awareness of the limited legislative effort in AB #1839, a bill that favors the special projects of members of the California Film Commission and leaves out independent producers has been a focus of Video logs online informing voters of the discriminatory nature of the special interest bill and urging reform of the California Film Commission, lifting the cap on incentives, lowering the production budget necessary to qualify for tax credits, and most importantly giving investors a reason to support independent productions in California in the same way they are supporting productions in state’s with better tax credits including New York, Louisiana, Georgia, and other destinations that have lured billions of dollars of jobs out of California benefiting the special interest groups who have lobbied the legislature on behalf of AB #1839.
Hollywood has many special interest groups that are profiting from job outsourcing. To truly Bring Hollywood Home the lawmakers must amend their special interest bill, end the discriminatory lottery, lift the cap, lower the budget amount to qualify for tax credits, increase the percentage of tax credits to support job grown in all the counties of California, and bring new transparency and accountability to the California Film Commission.” Sharon Hardee Jimenez President Founder Bring Hollywood Home. “We have been working to outreach to lawmakers, we’ve testified in Sacramento on behalf of our own bill that was killed by only one NO vote while leading lawmakers used their power to abstain from voting to kill the higher tax credit incentive bill that had no cap.” reports Jimenez. “We met with the Governor’s legislative deputy and we urged new leadership to oversee the tax credit incentives, an increase of the incentives to at least 1.4 billion (New York has a 400 million dollar cap and California has four times the economy of New York), and a lowering of the budget ceiling and expansion of other media that would be included in the tax credit incentives to new media, music video, and video game production. “Online video production from many major publications are the future and other states are leaving us behind because of the limited legislative leadership supported by the big special interest lobbyists in Sacramento.” emphasizes Jimenez.
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