To empower the state government film office to grant smaller tax break/subsidies less than the 42 percent of a producer’s Michigan expenses currently authorized by the state's unlimited film subsidy program. The program will be replaced next year by $25 million appropriated by the Legislature to hand out to film producers.   Official Text and Analysis.

With the recommendation that the bill pass.

With the recommendation that the substitute (H-3) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

To replace the previous version of the bill with one that also uses it as a "vehicle" for extending certain corporate and developer tax breaks and subsidies repealed as part of the Michigan Business Tax repeal, and also changes the MBT treatment of certain payments by trucking companies to subcontractors.

To empower the state government film office to continue to grant film producer subsidies, but smaller ones than under the previous unlimited film incentive program. With the elimination of the Michigan Business Tax the film subsidy program would disappear, but instead it will be replaced next year by $25 million appropriated by the Legislature to hand out to film producers. The House added unrelated provisions extending certain "brownfield" and related corporate and developer tax breaks and subsidies that are also scheduled to end with the repeal of the Michigan Business Tax.