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House narrows tourism tax language, limits new fund to parking and traffic impacts
Summary
Lawmakers passed First Substitute HB38 to clarify which counties may impose certain tourism-related local-option taxes and create a restricted transient room tax fund (county-of-first-class) for parking and traffic impacts; an amendment limited the program to $20 million and narrowly defined permitted uses.
First Substitute House Bill 38, introduced on the floor as clarifying amendments to Utah’s tourism-related local-option taxes, passed the House after floor amendments and a vote of 57 yes, 15 no, and 4 absent.
Representative Noble described the bill as clarifying the roles of two tourism taxes (transient room tax and the tourism/recreation/cultural/convention center tax) and specifying that in a county of the first class, 15% of the transient room tax…
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