Bill Text: NH HB1689 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to operator requirements under the meals and rooms tax.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-04-07 - Refer to Interim Study, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote; 04/07/2016; Senate Journal 12 [HB1689 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2016-HB1689-Introduced.html

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HB 1689 1689 - AS INTRODUCED

 

2016 SESSION

16-2889

09/01

 

HOUSE BILL 1689

 

AN ACT relative to operator requirements under the meals and rooms tax.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Sterling, Ches. 14; Rep. Chandler, Carr. 1; Rep. Chirichiello, Rock. 6

 

COMMITTEE: Ways and Means

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires an operator under the meals and rooms tax who rents rooms in a hotel or hotels with more than one physical address under a single license to provide the department of revenue administration with a schedule of the physical address of each hotel.

 

This bill is a request of the committee to study short-term rentals by homeowners and owners of residential properties, established by 2015, 197 (HB 531).

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

16-2889

09/01

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen

 

AN ACT relative to operator requirements under the meals and rooms tax.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  New Paragraph; Meals and Rooms Tax; Operator Requirements.  Amend RSA 78-A:8 by inserting after paragraph I the following new paragraph:

I-a.  An operator who rents rooms in a hotel or hotels with more than one physical address under a single license shall provide the department of revenue administration with a schedule of the physical address of each hotel.

2  Meals and Rooms Licenses Required; Schedules; Public Records.  Amend RSA 78-A:4, IV to read as follows:

IV.  Licenses, operator information displayed on licenses, schedules provided pursuant to RSA 78-A:8, I-a, and license dispositions, such as issuance, renewal, suspension, and revocation, shall be public records.

3  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.