California will continue offering filmmakers a 25 percent tax credit under a program Gov. Jerry Brown extended on Sunday.

The California Motion Picture Tax Credit was created in 2009 and is meant to keep production jobs in California. It authorizes a total of $100 million in tax credits.

Members of the state Assembly passed the bill by a 74-1 vote on Sept. 10. The state Senate passed it by a 34-2 vote the same day.

Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes, a Democrat from Sylmar, sponsored the bill, which former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger first signed.

The credit was set to expire in 2014.

According to the California Film Commission, the new one-year extension provides added continuity and certainty to a program that has proved very successful.

Labor unions opposed the bill.

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