2025 bills / H.B. 256
H.B. 256 Municipal and County Zoning Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
This bill lets cities and counties that regulate short-term rentals use a listing on a short-term rental website as evidence a rental happened, if they have other information showing an ordinance was broken. It also lets them require short-term rental owners to get a business license or other permit, ask websites to remove listings that break licensing or zoning rules, and share listings with the county auditor for transient room tax purposes.
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Official description
- defines terms and modifies definitions
- clarifies that a municipality or county that regulates short-term rentals may use a listing or offering on a short-term rental website as evidence that a short-term rental took place so long as the municipality or county has additional information to support its position that an owner or lessee violated a municipality or county ordinance
- provides that a municipality or county may require the owner of a short-term rental to obtain a business license or other permit from the municipality or county to operate a short-term rental in the municipality or in an unincorporated area of the county
- provides that a municipality or county may request a short-term rental website remove a listing or offering that violates business licensing requirements or zoning requirements
- provides that a municipality or county that imposes transient room tax on short-term rentals may provide a listing or offering on a short-term rental website to the county auditor as evidence that a short-term rental owner or lessee may be subject to the transient room tax
- makes technical and conforming changes
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Every vote
- 8 yes, 0 no, 2 absentHouse Political Subdivisions Committee: vote to approve it · 1/30/2025 2:41 PMWho voted how
- 48 yes, 23 no, 4 absentFinal House vote · 2/10/2025 2:35 PMWho voted how
- 5 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Revenue and Taxation Committee: vote to change the bill · 2/26/2025 9:25 AMWho voted how
- 3 yes, 2 no, 2 absentSenate Revenue and Taxation Committee: vote to approve it · 2/26/2025 9:26 AMWho voted how
- 27 yes, 1 no, 1 absentFinal Senate vote · 3/6/2025 11:27 AMWho voted how
- 47 yes, 22 no, 6 absentHouse vote to accept the other chamber's changes · 3/6/2025 3:11 PM