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Committee hears bill to raise and restructure licensing fees for food, lodging and pools
Summary
House Bill 853 would increase and reclassify licensing fees for food establishments, public accommodations, camps and pools to shift some program costs from property taxpayers to users and establishments.
Representative George Nikolicakos presented House Bill 853 to the House Business and Labor Committee as a targeted adjustment to licensing fees that have not been updated for about 15 years. The sponsor said the bill would add categories (for example, a medium food‑service tier and a mobile food category) and require hotels that serve food to obtain a retail food license.
Nut graf: Public health officials and business representatives said the change would rebalance who pays for environmental‑health programs so that roughly half the program cost is covered by license fees and the remainder by local taxes, rather than the…
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