Commending the ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation.
Sponsored bills
Content manufacturing tax credit. Removesthe sunset for the motion picture tax credit, which currently isset to expire after taxable year 2026, and expands and redesignatesthe tax credit as the content manufacturing tax credit. The billincreases the total amount of credits that can be allocated to taxpayers to $46.5 million beginning in fiscal year 2024; however, shouldless than $100 million worth of certain new investments, as describedby the bill, occur in Virginia by January 1, 2027, the cap will bereduced to $10 million per fiscal year. Thebill also amends the definition of the "qualifying expenses" eligiblefor the content manufacturing tax credit to mean certain amountsspent in connection with the production of an eligible project filmedin the Commonwealth. The bill defines "eligible project" to be theproduction of a motion picture or an episodic television series.
Commending Edmund Elliott.
Application for and issuance of order authorizing interception of communications; Superintendent of State Police.Allows the Superintendent of State Police or his designee, if theSuperintendent so designates in writing, to apply to a judge of competentjurisdiction for an order authorizing the interception of wire, electronic,or oral communications. The bill adds commercial sex traffickingand racketeering to the list of offenses for which an order authorizingthe interception of wire, electronic, or oral communications maybe sought. The bill also provides that an application for an orderauthorizing the interception of a wire, electronic, or oral communicationmay be verified by the Chief Deputy Attorney General, as designatedby the Attorney General.
Commending Major General Timothy P. Williams,VNG.
Commending Virginia's forest products industry.
Celebrating the life of Karen Harrison Jones.
Commending John Ray Grisham, Jr.
Commending the Honorable Dr. Luke E. Torian.
Commending Margaret L. Sanner.