Texas Historic Sites Filming Bonus — 2.5% TMIIIP Uplift

The Texas historic sites filming bonus adds 2.5% to your TMIIIP base rate for productions that utilize Texas Historical Commission (THC) recognized historic sites as primary filming locations.

What Counts as a Qualifying Historic Site?

Qualifying sites include properties:

• On the National Register of Historic Places
• Designated as a State Antiquities Landmark by the Texas Historical Commission
• Officially recognized by the THC as a Texas Historic Site
• Texas State Historical Markers on eligible properties

Texas has over 16,000 Official Texas Historical Markers and hundreds of Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks — a substantial pool of qualifying locations across every region of the state.

Notable Qualifying Location Categories

• Mission Trail (San Antonio) — five 18th-century Spanish missions, UNESCO World Heritage Site
• The Strand (Galveston) — National Historic Landmark District
• Fort Davis, Fort Concho, Fort McKavett — frontier-era military forts
• Presidio La Bahía (Goliad)
• Historic courthouses — many Texas county courthouses are on the National Register
• Plantation homes and ranching estates across East and South Texas
• Early Texas cities — Nacogdoches, Gonzales, Washington-on-the-Brazos

Application and Verification

Include your filming locations and their THC designation documentation in your TMIIIP application. A production filming at a non-designated historic property — even a clearly old building — does not qualify unless the property has formal THC recognition.

Obtain filmed-at permissions from the property owner separately; THC designation does not confer filming rights.