Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Finance Committee on February 4, 2014. The 2014 session has ended.
2014 Regular Session
Senate Bill 2691
Motion picture production companies; create loan guaranty program as incentive for productions in state.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT THE MISSISSIPPI DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY SHALL ESTABLISH A LOAN GUARANTY PROGRAM ON BEHALF OF CERTAIN MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION COMPANIES; TO PROVIDE ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA THAT A MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION COMPANY MUST SATISFY IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAM; TO PROVIDE FOR THE TERMS OF LOAN GUARANTEES MADE UNDER THE PROGRAM; TO PROVIDE THAT A MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION COMPANY THAT CHOOSES TO UTILIZE THE LOAN GUARANTY PROGRAM FOR A MOTION PICTURE SHALL NOT BE ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE REBATE INCENTIVE AUTHORIZED UNDER THE MISSISSIPPI MOTION PICTURE INCENTIVE ACT FOR THE SAME MOTION PICTURE; TO PROVIDE THAT FUNDS FOR THE LOAN GUARANTY PROGRAM WILL MADE AVAILABLE FROM CURRENT INCOME TAX COLLECTIONS AND FUNDS IN THE MISSISSIPPI MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION GUARANTY FUND; TO AUTHORIZE THE ISSUANCE OF STATE GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS TO PROVIDE FUNDS FOR THE MISSISSIPPI MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION GUARANTY FUND CREATED IN THIS ACT; TO AMEND SECTION 57-89-7, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, IN CONFORMITY THERETO; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the Senate
Sponsor
Its course
January 20 to February 4, 2014, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Text
Each version as the Legislature printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislature published it is below.