Bill Text: MI HB4560 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Taxation: convention tourism assessments; convention and tourism marketing act to include certain short-term rentals; revise. Amends secs. 2 & 4 of 1980 PA 383 (MCL 141.882 & 141.884). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4554'19
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-02 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 05/02/2019 [HB4560 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-HB4560-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 4560
May 2, 2019, Introduced by Reps. Webber, Brixie and Lilly and referred to the Committee on Commerce and Tourism.
A bill to amend 1980 PA 383, entitled
"Convention and tourism marketing act,"
by amending sections 2 and 4 (MCL 141.882 and 141.884), section 2
as amended by 2018 PA 625.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 2. As used in this act:
(a) "Assessment district" means a county having a population
of more than 1,500,000 and, if so designated by the bureau in the
marketing program notice, any county or counties contiguous with
it.
(b) "Assessment revenues" means the money derived from the
assessment, including any interest and penalties on the assessment,
imposed by this act.
(c) "Board" means the board of directors of a bureau.
(d) "Bureau" means a nonprofit corporation incorporated under
the laws of this state existing solely to promote convention
business and tourism within this state or a portion of this state,
and which complies with all of the following:
(i) Has not less than 400 dues paying members, of which not
less than 50 are owners of transient facilities.
(ii) Has been actively engaged in promoting convention
business and tourism for not less than 10 years.
(iii) Has a board of directors elected by its members.
(iv) Has a full-time chief operating officer and not less than
10 full-time employees.
(v) Is a member of 1 or more nationally recognized
associations of travel and convention bureaus.
(e) "Director" means the president of the Michigan strategic
fund or his or her designee.
(f) "Marketing program" means a program established by a
bureau to develop, encourage, solicit, and promote convention
business and tourism within this state or a portion of this state
within which the bureau operates. The encouragement and promotion
of convention business and tourism shall include any service,
function, or activity, whether or not performed, sponsored, or
advertised by a bureau which intends to attract transient guests to
the assessment district.
(g) "Marketing program notice" means the notice described in
section 3.
(h) "Master plan" means the comprehensive, long-range master
plan developed by the Michigan travel commission and the travel
bureau under section 2c of the Michigan tourism policy act, 1945 PA
106, MCL 2.102c.
(i) "Owner" means the owner of a transient facility located
within the assessment district or, if the transient facility is
operated or managed by a person other than the owner, then the
operator or manager of that transient facility.
(j) "Room" means a room or other space provided for sleeping,
including the furnishings and other accessories in the room.
(k) "Assessment" means the amount levied against an owner of a
transient facility within an assessment district computed by
application of the applicable percentage against aggregate room
charges with respect to that transient facility during the
applicable assessment period.
(l) "Room charge" means the charge imposed for a short-term
rental or the use or occupancy of a room, excluding charges for
food, beverages, state use tax, telephone service or like services
paid in connection with the charge, and reimbursement of the
assessment imposed by this act.
(m) "Short-term rental" and "short-term transient facility"
mean those terms as defined in the Michigan short-term rental
promotion act.
(n) (m)
"Transient facility"
means a short-term transient
facility or a building which contains 35 or more rooms used in the
business of providing dwelling, lodging, or sleeping to transient
guests, whether or not membership is required for the use of the
rooms. A transient facility shall not include a hospital or nursing
home.
(o) (n)
"Transient guest" means a
natural person who occupies
a room in a transient facility for less than 30 consecutive days
regardless of who pays the room charge.
(p) (o)
"Travel bureau" means the
Michigan travel bureau
created under section 2a of the Michigan tourism policy act, 1945
PA 106, MCL 2.102a.
Sec. 4. A marketing program may include all or any of the
following:
(a) Provisions for establishing and paying the costs of
advertising, marketing, and promotional programs to encourage
convention business and tourism in the assessment district.
(b) Provisions for assisting transient facilities within the
assessment district in promoting convention business and tourism.
(c) Provisions for the acquisition of personal property
considered appropriate by the bureau in furtherance of the purposes
of the marketing program.
(d) Provisions for the hiring of and payment for personnel
employed by the bureau to implement the marketing program.
(e) Provisions for contracting with organizations, agencies,
or persons for carrying out activities in furtherance of the
purposes of the marketing program.
(f) Programs for establishing and paying the costs of research
designed to encourage convention business and tourism in the
assessment district.
(g) Provisions clarifying the assessment on room charges for
short-term rentals of short-term transient facilities.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 4554 (request no.
01509'19) of the 100th Legislature is enacted into law.
