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Division of Outdoor Recreation summarizes 2025 bills affecting parks, trails, taxes and appropriations
Summary
Division of Outdoor Recreation Director Jason Curry briefed the commission on several 2025 bills and two major appropriations, including a transient room tax change that will direct roughly $7 million a year for visitor-impact grants and a $21 million shop appropriation.
Jason Curry, director of the Utah Division of Outdoor Recreation, briefed the Outdoor Adventure Commission on a series of bills from the 2025 legislative session that the division says will affect recreation management, grant programs and state appropriations.
The update covered multiple House and Senate bills affecting outdoor recreation programs, taxes and liability protections. Curry told the commission the most consequential changes include a transient room tax (TRT) modification that creates a statewide 0.75 percentage-point increase and directs one-third of that new revenue to a division-administered grant program for visitor-impact costs. "It also provided in a statewide 0.75 percent increase for transient room tax," Curry said during the briefing.
Why it matters: The TRT change will create a recurring funding stream the division estimates at roughly $7,000,000 per year for grants to counties in the third through sixth class to help cover search-and-rescue, EMS, road impacts and solid waste costs…
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