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Bill would let resort-area communities use optional resort-tax infrastructure funds for workforce housing
Summary
Supporters said House Bill 162 would add workforce and community housing to the definition of infrastructure eligible for an optional 1% resort-tax allocation (with voter approval), enabling resort communities to bond and leverage local funds for long-term housing projects; proponents urged a do-pass recommendation, opponents raised no formal objections in the hearing.
House Bill 162 would add "workforce and community housing projects" to the statutory definition of infrastructure eligible for spending from the optional 1% resort-tax infrastructure allocation, proponents told the Senate Local Government Committee.
Representative Walsh, the bill sponsor, said the measure does not create a new tax but permits communities that already have or may seek the optional 1% infrastructure allocation to place a ballot question before local electors allowing those funds to be used for housing projects designated as…
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