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Senate passes transient room tax changes to fund rural visitor-impact grants, returns bill to House
Summary
The Senate passed eighth substitute House Bill 456 to raise the statewide transient room tax by 0.75 percentage points, create a grant fund for rural visitor-impact mitigation, and establish a county option for additional local revenue. The measure passed unanimously in the Senate and will return to the House for further consideration.
The Utah Senate approved an amended transient room tax package designed to direct new revenue toward rural visitor-impact mitigation, including emergency medical services and search-and-rescue in smaller counties.
“During the interim…we recognized there's been a challenge with trying to find some funding for rural EMS or emergency medical services and search and rescue and some other related visitor impacts in some of the smaller counties,” Senator Vickers said while presenting eighth substitute House Bill 4 56.
The bill raises the statewide transient room tax (TRT) by 0.75 percentage…
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