Kentucky House Bill 511 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: Introduced on February 20 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-21 - to Local Government (H)
Pending: House Local Government Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Amend KRS 91A.400 to define "base restaurant tax receipts" and "merged governments"; grant any city or merged government the right to levy a restaurant tax, subject to certain limitations; allow cities and merged governments levying a restaurant tax after the effective date to distribute at least 25% of revenues generated to the tourist and convention commission, the remainder to be used to create or support infrastructure supporting tourism; make provisions for cities that levied the restaurant tax prior to the effective date to distribute restaurant tax revenues; establish passage and accounting procedures for the levying of the restaurant tax; deal with surpluses; permit uses of unexpended funds; prohibit the subsidy of any private concern; create an offset for restaurants that have both a city and a merged government levying the tax; exempt restaurants subject to the tax from certain local occupational license taxes; mandate that any new tax or rate take effect at the beginning of any calendar month.

AN ACT relating to resources for local development.

Rep. Attica Scott [D]

Rep. Charles Booker [D]

Rep. Joni Jenkins [D]

Rep. Reginald Meeks [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-21	House	to Local Government (H)
2019-02-20	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/19RS/hb511.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/19RS/hb511/orig_bill.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/19RS/hb511/LM.pdf