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Louisiana lawmakers saved the state’s tax credit as part of a sweeping set of fiscal reform bills that are headed the governor’s desk coming out of a special legislative session.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Louisiana will preserve its tax incentive for film and TV production, with a $25 million cut, under a budget deal reached by lawmakers. The state Senate voted 38-1 on Friday to lower the cap on the program from $150 million to $125 million. The House of Representatives concurred on a vote of 90-9, sending the bill to Gov.

The Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Committee of the Louisiana Senate has approved the state’s tax credit for film and television production in a version skinnier than before but at least still there.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Allies of the film industry in the Louisiana Legislature said Wednesday they will work to salvage the state’s production incentive, after the House voted to repeal it this week. The state House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to sunset the $150 million program on June 30, 2025, as part of a tax reform package that lowers the state personal income tax to 3%. The House voted again on Wednesday, 79-19, to pass a corporate tax cut.

Louisiana’s increasingly popular state tax credit for film and television production may be at risk as legislators at a special session are considering the repeal of a wide range of incentives.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer The Louisiana House of Representatives voted Tuesday to eliminate the state’s $150 million tax incentive for film and TV production, as part of a broad package of measures to reduce the state income tax. Louisiana was the first state to adopt a tax incentive for film production, in 1992, though the program did not start to generate considerable filming until it was amended a decade later. The program offers a 25% rebate on production costs, which can reach as high as 40% in some cases.

WVLA.“In eight years as a Democratic governor with a Republican legislature, I have issued 319 vetoes. More than 99% of those vetoes have been sustained.

a ban on transgender athletes last year.The most prominent of the bills is a measure to ban transgender youth from accessing gender-affirming treatments meant to treat gender dysphoria, including puberty blockers, hormones, or surgical interventions, the latter of which are rarely performed on minors.The ban on gender-affirming care appeared to be dead last month after Sen. Fred Mills (R-New Iberia, the chairman of the Senate Health and Welfare Committee, voted with Democrats to reject the bill when it came before the committee.  Mills said that his decision had been heavily influenced by a 2022 Louisiana Health Department study on gender-affirming health care.It found that no gender-affirming surgical procedures had been performed on any minors enrolled in Medicaid in the state between 2017 and 2021, and that hormone and puberty blockers were rarely prescribed to transgender-identifying minors in Louisiana during that same period. National conservative pundits — who have deemed opposition to LGBTQ visibility, transgender rights, and “wokeness” as essential to their party’s brand — were outraged at Mills’ defection, and promised political retribution.Mills’ fellow Republicans caved to pressure from those voices to revive the bill.Senators then used a rare procedural maneuver to recommit the bill to a different committee, allowing it to pass on a 29-10 vote, reports the Associated Press.The bill now heads back to the House, which previously overwhelmingly approved the ban on gender-affirming care.