2025 bills / H.B. 456
H.B. 456 Transient Room Tax Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill changes how counties and cities can use transient room tax revenue from short-term lodging such as hotels and short-term rentals, and lets a county share that revenue with a city in the county by agreement. It also sets up a new state grant program for outdoor recreation mitigation, funded by a new Outdoor Recreation Mitigation Grant Fund, and adjusts state and county tax rates and reporting rules for lodging.
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Official description
- defines terms and modifies definitions
- modifies the acceptable uses of transient room tax revenue
- authorizes a county to enter into an interlocal agreement with a municipality within the county to share county transient room tax revenue
- modifies reporting requirements on counties that impose transient room tax
- provides that certain municipalities may appoint board members to a tourism tax advisory board
- requires the state auditor to review a county's report on transient room tax and determine if the report is sufficient and compliant
- modifies the maximum county tax rate on short-term rentals of tourist home, hotel, motel, or trailer court accommodations and services for counties of the second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth class
- extends an earmark on certain transient room tax revenue for a county of the first class
- modifies the state tax rate on short-term rentals of tourist home, hotel, motel, or trailer court accommodations and services
- imposes an additional state tax on short-term rentals of tourist home, hotel, motel, or trailer court accommodations and services that take place within a county of the first class
- directs the State Tax Commission to distribute certain revenue the state collects on short-term rentals of tourist home, hotel, motel, or trailer court accommodations and services
- extends the sunset on the State Search and Rescue Advisory Board
- creates a sunset review
- modifies the uses of the Transient Room Tax Fund
- establishes an outdoor recreation mitigation grant program within the Division of Outdoor Recreation
- creates the Outdoor Recreation Mitigation Grant Fund
- describes the criteria to apply for and receive an outdoor recreation mitigation grant
- describes the acceptable uses of an outdoor recreation mitigation grant
- requires the Division of Outdoor Recreation to provide a written report annually to the Revenue and Taxation and Political Subdivisions Interim committees
- repeals the sunset date on the Volunteer Emergency Medical Service Personnel Health Insurance Program
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 456 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 456 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 13 yes, 0 no, 1 absentHouse Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 14, 2025Who voted how
- 13 yes, 0 no, 1 absentHouse Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 14, 2025Who voted how
- 61 yes, 5 no, 9 absentFinal House vote · Feb 24, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 4 absentSenate Business and Labor Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how
- 27 yes, 0 no, 2 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 6, 2025Who voted how
- 61 yes, 10 no, 4 absentHouse vote to accept the other chamber's changes · Mar 6, 2025Who voted how