along party lines, 80 to 19.

Now it is the Senate's top priority.

Senate Bill one seeks to establish the Kentucky film Office with hopes of further tapping into a multimillion dollar industry.

The new film office would help entice filmmakers to the state connect local partners to the industry and help develop workforce training programs with Kentucky's public colleges.

Funding for this film office would come from 3 sources, including half a million dollars a year from the state.

The bill is sponsored by state Senator Phillip Wheeler Pikeville and has strong support from Senate President Robert Stivers who spoke on the bill on the Senate floor today.

>> What more can we do for creating an environment for diversification.

Education and economic development.

They creating a coordinating body.

>> That the secretary and his staff and us as policymakers recognize it's quite the viable entity.

To project us into a rail.

That we have not been in and been competitive because we lacked this structure.

The incentives are in place.

We need the coordinating body to do this, which I believe working with the senator from tighter and the sponsor of the bill, the senator from Pike have a unique opportunity.

The capture the win.

And change this state.

>> The senator from Pike Senator Wheeler said the film industry in Kentucky generated 200 million dollars in revenue in 2022, that figure is projected to grow and could lead to an estimated 30 million dollars in tax revenue for the state.

The bill passed the