Bill gives movie theaters a tax credit for upgrades through 2030.
H.R. 9938 — SCREEN Act · Filed by Claudia Tenney (R-NY) · 3 cosponsors · Introduced Jul 23, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill creates a tax credit for movie theater owners. The credit pays up to 30 percent of upgrade costs. Each theater can get $250,000 to $500,000, based on screen count. Theater owners can use the credit to lower their taxes. They can also sell the credit to other companies.
Who it affects
Movie theater owners and operators get the main benefit. Equipment makers may sell more products to theaters. The federal government loses tax money.
One thing to notice
The bill does not require theaters to lower ticket prices or help poor families. The credit goes to theaters no matter what they do.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
3 cosponsors: 2 Republicans, 1 Democrats.
- Jul 23, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 23, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $20,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 1 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Claudia Tenney, who sponsored the bill, received $1,179,908 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- One Gas — $20,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- tax credit — Money the government gives back to lower what someone owes in taxes.
- upgrade — To improve or replace something to make it better or newer.
- federal — Belonging to the U.S. government, not a state or local government.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (4,527 characters) on Aug 12, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 2, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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