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Committee adopts amendment reducing penalties for small short-term rental operators in lodging fee-disclosure bill
Summary
The committee adopted an amendment that lowers the civil penalty for owners of three or fewer short-term rentals from up to $10,000 per violation to up to $1,000, and then voted to send the substitute House Bill 1080 to the rules committee with the amendment rolled into a striking amendment.
The Washington State Senate Business, Financial Services & Trade Committee on March 26 adopted an amendment to Substitute House Bill 1080 that reduces the maximum civil penalty for small operators of short-term rentals and then recommended the bill to the rules committee.
Committee staff summarized SHB 1080 as requiring hotels and short-term rental operators to disclose all fees and charges in advertised, displayed, or offered rates…
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