71st OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2001 Regular Session
 
HA to HB 2934
 
LC 1413/HB 2934-10
 
                       HOUSE AMENDMENTS TO
                         HOUSE BILL 2934
 
    By COMMITTEE ON RULES, REDISTRICTING, AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS
 
                             July 1
 
  On page 1 of the printed bill, line 2, after 'taxation ' insert
a period and delete the rest of the line and line 3.
  Delete lines 5 through 27 and delete pages 2 through 5 and
insert:
  '  { +  SECTION 1. + }  { + (1) As used in this section:
  ' (a) 'Collection reimbursement charge' means the amount a
transient lodging provider may retain as reimbursement for the
costs incurred by the provider in collecting and reporting a
local transient lodging tax and in maintaining local transient
lodging tax records.
  ' (b) 'Conference center' mean a facility that:
  ' (A) Is owned or partially owned by a unit of local
government, a governmental agency or a nonprofit organization;
and
  ' (B) Meets the current membership criteria of the
International Association of Conference Centers.
  ' (c) 'Convention center' means a new or improved facility
that:
  ' (A) Is capable of attracting and accommodating conventions
and trade shows from international, national and regional markets
requiring exhibition space, ballroom space, meeting rooms and any
other associated space, including but not limited to banquet
facilities, loading areas and lobby and registration areas;
  ' (B) Has a total meeting room and ballroom space between
one-third and one-half of the total size of the center's
exhibition space;
  ' (C) Generates a majority of its business income from
tourists;
  ' (D) Has a room-block relationship with the local lodging
industry; and
  ' (E) Is owned by a unit of local government, a governmental
agency or a nonprofit organization.
  ' (d) 'Local transient lodging tax' means a tax imposed by a
unit of local government on the sale, service or furnishing of
transient lodging.
  ' (e) 'Tourism' means economic activity resulting from
tourists.
  ' (f) 'Tourism promotion' means any of the following
activities:
  ' (A) Advertising, publicizing or distributing information for
the purpose of attracting and welcoming tourists;
  ' (B) Conducting strategic planning and research necessary to
stimulate future tourism development;
  ' (C) Operating tourism promotion agencies; and
  ' (D) Marketing special events and festivals designed to
attract tourists.
  ' (g) 'Tourism promotion agency' includes:
  ' (A) An incorporated nonprofit organization or governmental
unit that is responsible for the tourism promotion of a
destination on a year-round basis.
  ' (B) A nonprofit entity that manages tourism-related economic
development plans, programs and projects.
  ' (C) A regional or statewide association that represents
entities that rely on tourism-related business for more than 50
percent of their total income.
  ' (h) 'Tourism-related facility' means real property that has a
useful life of 10 or more years and that is used to support
tourism and to accommodate tourist activities. 'Tourism-related
facility' includes a conference center, convention center and
visitor information center.
  ' (i) 'Tourist' means a person who, for business, pleasure,
recreation or participation in events related to the arts,
heritage or culture, travels from the community in which that
person is a resident to a different community that is separate,
distinct from and unrelated to the person's community of
residence, and that trip:
  ' (A) Requires the person to travel more than 50 miles from the
community of residence; or
  ' (B) Includes an overnight stay.
  ' (j) 'Transient lodging' means hotel, motel and inn dwelling
units that are designed for temporary overnight human occupancy,
and includes spaces designed for parking recreational vehicles
during periods of human occupancy of those vehicles.
  ' (k) 'Unit of local government' has the meaning given that
term in ORS 190.003.
  ' (L) 'Visitor information center' means a building, or a
portion of a building, the main purpose of which is to distribute
or disseminate information to tourists.
  ' (2) On and after January 1, 2001, a unit of local government
that imposed a local transient lodging tax on December 31, 2000,
and allowed a transient lodging provider to retain a collection
reimbursement charge on that tax, may not decrease the percentage
of local transient lodging taxes that is used to fund collection
reimbursement charges.
  ' (3) A unit of local government that imposes a new local
transient lodging tax on or after January 1, 2001, shall allow a
transient lodging provider to retain a collection reimbursement
charge of at least five percent of all collected local transient
lodging tax revenues. The percentage of the collection
reimbursement charge may be increased by the unit of local
government.
  ' (4) A unit of local government that increases a local
transient lodging tax on or after January 1, 2001, shall allow a
transient lodging provider to retain a collection reimbursement
charge of at least five percent of all collected local transient
lodging tax revenues. The collection reimbursement charge shall
apply to all collected local transient lodging tax revenues,
including revenues that would have been collected without the
increase. The percentage of the collection reimbursement charge
may be increased by the unit of local government.
  ' (5) A unit of local government may not offset the loss of
local transient lodging tax revenues caused by collection
reimbursement charges required by this section by:
  ' (a) Increasing the rate of the local transient lodging tax;
  ' (b) Decreasing the percentage of total local transient
lodging tax revenues used to fund tourism promotion or
tourism-related facilities; or
  ' (c) Increasing or imposing a new fee solely on transient
lodging providers or tourism promotion agencies that are funded
by the local transient lodging tax. + } ' .
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