Bills Assigned to Keyword - Accommodations/Hospitality Taxes (16)

Date of Last Recorded Action: 4/26/2024


H 3082 Allows local hospitality tax revenues to be used for transportation03.03.11 The House Ways and Means Sales and Income Tax subcommittee adjourned debate on this bill. Summary of the bill as introduced: Allows the governing body of a county or municipality by ordinance to use not more than one half of revenues from the local hospitality tax for transportation needs.
Sponsor: McEachern House Com: Senate Com:
Status: Referred to Committee on Ways and Means Status Date: 1/11/2011
Keywords: Accommodations/Hospitality Taxes
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H 3171 Allows local hospitality revenues for transportation needs03.03.11 The House Ways and Means Sales and Income Tax subcommittee adjourned debate on this bill. Summary of the bill as introduced: Allows the governing body of a county to use not more than half of revenues from the local hospitality tax for county transportation needs.
Sponsor: McEachern House Com: Senate Com:
Status: Referred to Committee on Ways and Means Status Date: 1/11/2011
Keywords: Accommodations/Hospitality Taxes
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H 3174 Allows local hospitality tax revenue to be used for transportation03.03.11 The House Ways and Means Sales and Income Tax subcommittee adjourned debate on this bill. Summary of the bill as introduced: Allows the governing body of a municipality and a county by ordinance to use no more than half of revenues from the local hospitality tax for transportation needs.
Sponsor: McEachern House Com: Senate Com:
Status: Referred to Committee on Ways and Means Status Date: 1/11/2011
Keywords: Accommodations/Hospitality Taxes
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H 3567 Reduces the amount of accommodations tax revenues in certain countiesSummary of the bill as introduced: Reduces the required amount of accommodations tax revenues collected in a county during a fiscal year which exempts a county from these provisions of law regulating activities on Sunday.
Sponsor: G.M. Smith House Com: Senate Com:
Status: Referred to Committee on Judiciary Status Date: 2/2/2011
Keywords: Accommodations/Hospitality Taxes
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H 3624 Funding for the administration of a model recycling programSummary of the bill as introduced: Requires holder of on-premises consumption alcohol permits to recycle each beverage container in accordance with the model recycling program through SC DHEC. This program is to use accommodations taxes to provide funding for administration and implementation of the program.
Sponsor: Jefferson House Com: Senate Com:
Status: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs Status Date: 2/8/2011
Keywords: Accommodations/Hospitality Taxes
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H 3649 Removes the penalty for late local hospitality tax paymentsSummary of the bill as introduced: Removes the penalty, fine or other additional cost with respect to local hospitality tax payments received within seven days of the due date that in the aggregate exceeds five percent of the delinquent tax.
Sponsor: Stavrinakis House Com: Senate Com:
Status: Referred to Committee on Ways and Means Status Date: 2/10/2011
Keywords: Accommodations/Hospitality Taxes
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H 3665 Penalties for carrying a firearm into a business that sells alcohol05.08.12 The Senate Judiciary committee gave this bill a favorable report as amended by the subcommittee.05.02.12 A Senate Judiciary subcommittee gave this bill a favorable report with an amendment. The amendment strikes all of the language in the bill and replaces it with language from S1436.Summary of the bill as introduced: Establishes a penalty for anyone that carries a firearm into a business that sells alcoholic beer, liquor or wine for consumption.
Sponsor: Cooper House Com: Senate Com:
Status: Scrivener's error corrected Status Date: 5/11/2012
Keywords: Accommodations/Hospitality Taxes Public Safety
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H 3787 Deletes certain requirements for counties and municipalities on accommodations expenditures 03.20.12 The House Ways and Means Licenses, Fees, Insurance Tax and Other Charges subcommittee carried this bill over for interested parties to work out a compromise.Summary of the bill as introduced: Gives the administrative law court the authority to hear certain legal challenges related to tourism expenditures by cities and counties and eliminates the Tourism Expenditure Review Committee.
Sponsor: Owens House Com: Senate Com:
Status: Member(s) request name removed as sponsor: Henderson Status Date: 6/14/2011
Keywords: Accommodations/Hospitality Taxes Finance/Revenue/Taxes
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H 3801 Includes vacation time sharing plans in accomodations taxes on transientsSummary of the bill as introduced: Includes accommodations provided to occupants, other than owner occupants pursuant to a vacation time sharing plan.
Sponsor: Bowers House Com: Senate Com:
Status: Referred to Committee on Ways and Means Status Date: 3/3/2011
Keywords: Accommodations/Hospitality Taxes
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H 4186 Tourism Development ActSummary of the bill as introduced: Allows governing bodies of counties where an international airport is located and collects above a certain amount of accommodations tax revenue to impose by a positive majority vote through an ordinance an additional local accommodations marketing fee not above two percent in the unincorporated areas of the county.
Sponsor: Bannister House Com: Senate Com:
Status: Member(s) request name removed as sponsor: Hamilton Status Date: 3/12/2012
Keywords: Accommodations/Hospitality Taxes
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H 4337 Accommodations tax and lodgingSummary of the bill as introduced: Requires that the accommodations tax apply solely to amounts received by the operator of hotel, inn, tourist court, tourist camp, motel campground, residence or any place in which rooms, lodging or sleeping accommodations are furnished to transients for a consideration. 
Sponsor: Edge House Com: Senate Com:
Status: Referred to Committee on Ways and Means Status Date: 6/2/2011
Keywords: Accommodations/Hospitality Taxes
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S 0461 Funding for the administration of a model recycling program05.02.12 The House Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs Environmental Affairs I subcommittee adjourned debate on this bill.03.22.11 The Senate Judiciary committee gave this bill a favorable report as amended by the subcommittee and the full committee. The amendment changed the language of the bill so that instead of the exemption procedures being set by regulation, they are instead set by statute.03.16.11 A Senate Judiciary subcommittee gave this bill a favorable report with an amendment. The amendment removes accommodations tax funding and replaces it with funding from the Governor's Task Force on Litter.03.02.11 A Senate Judiciary subcommittee carried this bill over.Summary of the bill as introduced: Requires holder of on-premises consumption alcohol permits to recycle each beverage container in accordance with the model recycling program through SC DHEC. This program is to use state accommodations taxes to provide funding for administration and implementation of the program.
Sponsor: Cleary House Com: Senate Com:
Status: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs Status Date: 6/2/2011
Keywords: Accommodations/Hospitality Taxes
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S 0765 Allows accommodations tax revenues to be used for welcome centersSummary of the bill as introduced: Allows tourism promotion organizations, counties and municipalities  receiving accommodations tax revenues to use them in support of welcome centers operated by the SC Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism.
Sponsor: Campsen House Com: Senate Com:
Status: Referred to Committee on Finance Status Date: 4/5/2011
Keywords: Accommodations/Hospitality Taxes
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S 0952 Tourism Development ActSummary of the bill as introduced: Enacts the Tourism Development Act that allows the governing body of counties where an international airport is located and who collect above a certain amount of accommodations tax revenue by a positive majority vote to impose by ordinance an additional local accommodations marketing fee.
Sponsor: Fair House Com: Senate Com:
Status: Referred to Committee on Finance Status Date: 6/2/2011
Keywords: Accommodations/Hospitality Taxes
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S 1041 Allows the collection of local accommodations taxes by jeopardy assessmentSummary of the bill as introduced: Allows a local governing body that imposes the local accommodations tax by ordinance to provide for the collection of the tax by means of a jeopardy assessment.
Sponsor: Cleary House Com: Senate Com:
Status: Referred to Committee on Finance Status Date: 1/10/2012
Keywords: Accommodations/Hospitality Taxes
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S 1436 Adds the definition of taverns and bars05.02.12 A Senate Judiciary subcommittee met but did not take action on the bill.Summary of the bill as introduced: Requires food service establishments and taverns or bars to submit to the SC Department of Revenue a statement of the percentage of income from food service and from alcohol sales.
Sponsor: Knotts House Com: Senate Com:
Status: Referred to Subcommittee: Campsen (ch), Knotts, Campbell, Coleman, Shoopman Status Date: 4/20/2012
Keywords: Accommodations/Hospitality Taxes Public Safety
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