March 29, 2022 9:46 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, March 29
Good morning! Today is Legislative Day 37. Times are… weird. Submitted for your consideration:
- Yesterday, as the Senate Finance Committee considered the tax cut that passed the House earlier in the session, they lobbed a last-minute change to the (arguably very successful) state film tax credit.
- The big, transformative mental health bill (that has been subject to an extreme amount of weirdness from the GOP fringe) passed the Senate yesterday.
- SoS Raffensperger confirms (what we already knew): no non-citizens voted in Georgia.
- Last night’s Lawmakers on GPB featured a very informative interview with DBHDD head Judy Fitzgerald.
- This week in Agnes Scott College news: Professor Willie Tolliver, Jr., literally wrote the book on Will Smith, and he has thoughts on the Oscars.
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Teri
Teri Anulewicz is a Democrat who represents House District 42 in the Georgia General Assembly. She previously spent nearly a decade on the Smyrna City Council. A native New Orleanian and quasi-Texan, Teri graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1998. She's been a front page contributor since 2015, and she compiles each Tuesday's Morning Reads.
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The proposed cap on the movie tax credits is not the real damper on the filmmakers (mpegmakers?) that matters. Making them non-transferable is a very big deal. Few, if any, have spent even close to the amount of money to use the credits and they have been a fungible commodity brokered to other in-state corporations. Essentially it is how the taxpayers have helped finance these productions. With the amounts involved I would be shocked to see the clause making them non-transferable stay in the bill.
i’m too lazy to look it up, but i’m pretty sure a fairly robust film industry pretty well pulled the plug on louisiana(maybe north carolina) after they changed their film tax credits last year…