It's deadline time in Olympia for bills that haven't yet made it out of committee; either they make it out fast, or they admit it's over for this year. Among the bills fighting for their lives: a bill that would re-instate a tax break to encourage filmmaking in Washington State.

From the Washington Filmworks blog:

We repeatedly heard that Representative Ross Hunter (D-48) is not willing to schedule a Ways & Means Committee hearing on the bill. This hearing must occur before the bill cut off date of Monday, February 27th at 5 p.m. or the bill could die.

If you are a constituent living or working in the 48th district and are Represented by Ways & Means Chair Ross Hunter we urge you to write or call his office, asking him to schedule a hearing before the bill cut off of 5 p.m., Monday February 27th. Representative Hunter’s email is ross.hunter@leg.wa.gov and his Olympia Office telephone number is (360) 786-7936.

This tax break, as I noted a week ago, would cost the state an estimated $7 million every two years in rebates to filmmakers, but would bring in around ten times that much in revenue generated by their filmmaking projects.