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Died HOUSE · SESSION 2026

No. HB 6007

Tourist Development Taxes
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SPONSOR
Eskamani
FILED BY
Anna Eskamani — District 42, Democrat [search donations]
EFFECTIVE
7/1/2026
DIED IN
Ways & Means Committee

Filed under Local Government.

PROVIDED SUMMARY

Tourist Development Taxes ; Removes provision requiring specified percentage of all tourist development tax revenues to be used to promote & advertise tourism.

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Plain English Summary

AI-GENERATED
Lets counties fund public facilities without the 40 percent promotion rule.

Current law lets a high-tourism-impact county spend tourist development tax revenue on public facilities only if it meets three conditions together, including that at least 40 percent of all such tax revenue collected is spent promoting and advertising tourism.

This bill deletes that 40 percent promotion-spending condition, leaving only the 70 percent cost-share cap and the independent tourism-impact analysis as the tests a county must meet.

A county can now qualify to redirect tourist tax revenue toward public facility construction without separately guaranteeing that 40 percent of its collections still go to tourism advertising.

KEY PROVISIONS
§ 1 Deletes the 40 percent tourism-promotion spending condition majors. 125.0104(5)(a)

AIRemoves the requirement that at least 40 percent of all tourist development tax revenue collected in the county be spent on tourism promotion and advertising as one of the conditions for funding public facilities with that revenue.

“At least 40 percent of all tourist development tax revenues collected in the county are spent to promote and advertise tourism” bill text, line 94 →
TIMELINE
3/13/2026
Died in Ways & Means Committee
1/13/2026
1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
11/24/2025
Now in Ways & Means Committee
11/24/2025
Referred to Commerce Committee
11/24/2025
Referred to Housing, Agriculture & Tourism Subcommittee
11/24/2025
Referred to Ways & Means Committee
11/13/2025
Filed
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STATUTES IT CHANGES
s. 125.0104
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