{"id":10880,"date":"2025-05-30T13:47:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T20:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afm47.org\/press\/?p=10880"},"modified":"2025-06-03T10:56:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T17:56:14","slug":"call-to-action-euc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afm47.org\/press\/call-to-action-euc\/","title":{"rendered":"CALL TO ACTION: Entertainment Union Coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We are in the most critical moment of our fight to expand and modernize our California film and television jobs program.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Simply put, we will need the voices of every single member, small business, family members, friends and colleagues to get this across the finish lines in the coming week. The toughest part of this fight remains in front of us over the next two weeks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last Friday afternoon, our bills passed out of both the Senate and Assembly Appropriations Committees; that put us one step closer to floor votes. The additional $420 million in funding was stripped out, although it remains in Governor Newsom\u2019s proposed budget. This makes it imperative that the legislature keeps the $750 million funding in the budget, passes the program changes in our two bills, and does both by July 1.<\/p>\n

The funding increase proposed by Governor Newsom is absolutely critical to implementing the carefully crafted programmatic changes in these bills that passed out of policy committees in both houses. Failure to pass one element without the other will not strengthen the program or keep production here. In fact, it will have the opposite effect, leading to further job loss and fewer productions in California.<\/p>\n

We need your help.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We need to continue to ring the alarm to our elected officials to remind them that our California Film and Television Jobs program:<\/strong><\/p>\n