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AFP calls on Gov. Scott to ignore calls to include film incentive package in Special Session

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Two days after Film Florida penned a letter to Florida’s legislative leaders that they wanted a tax incentives production package for film and television included in the special session that starts up next month, opposition arrived in the form of a letter sent to Gov. Rick Scott authored by the state leader for Americans for Prosperity. AFP has also lobbied hard against a tax incentive package for stadiums this session, and both proposals were referred to in the letter to the governor.…

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Backers say film incentive bill still alive in Tallahassee

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House Speaker Steve Crisafulli’s abrupt decision to gavel the 60-day legislative session to a close three days before its scheduled end because of a budget impasse with the Senate affects loads of important legislation. For the members of Florida’s economy that work in the TV/movie and digital entertainment industry, it could be a devastating blow. That’s because a bill sponsored by Venice Republicans Nancy Detert in the Senate and Mike Miller of Winter Park in the House that would begin to…

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