Bill > SB1350

This bill aims to regulate online lodging and related businesses by establishing new definitions and limitations on local government authority. Specifically, it prevents cities and towns from prohibiting or overly restricting vacation rentals and short-term rentals, allowing regulation only for public health and safety, and for enforcing residential use and zoning ordinances in a uniform manner, while also permitting prohibitions on certain illicit uses. The bill also creates a hospitality studies scholarship fund to support students in related programs and clarifies tax collection and reporting for online lodging marketplaces and operators, ensuring that these marketplaces can register to collect taxes on behalf of various jurisdictions and that online lodging operators are not taxed on transactions where the marketplace is handling the tax collection. Additionally, it modifies existing tax laws to accommodate these changes and establishes a joint legislative study committee on transient lodging to examine current regulations and their impacts.