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Page 6A NORTHWEST East Oregonian Wednesday, February 17, 2016 Bill to double hotel tax goes to House for vote By HILLARY BORRUD Capital Bureau SALEM — A bill to double Oregon’s statewide tourist lodging tax is headed to the House, after the bill passed out of committee Monday evening on a 5-3 vote. The short-term goal is to raise money so the state can subsidize a world track championship in Eugene in 2021. Nike and University of Oregon of¿cials have pushed for the state to help pay for the event since at least 2014. To achieve that, the bill would increase the statewide tax on tourist lodging from 1 percent to 2 percent and allow the state greater Àexibility to spend the tourism tax revenue. State law currently requires the government to spend at least 80 percent of hotel tax revenues on tourism marketing. House Bill 4146 would allow the state to spend that money on any “tourism programs,” including to subsidize the costs of events such as the track champion- ship. The bill would also require the state’s tourism commission, Travel Oregon, to distribute set amounts of lodging tax revenue around the state through regional allo- cations and competitive grants. In the two-year budget that begins in mid-2017, the bill would result in $34.2 million in new tax revenue, according to an estimate from the Legisla- tive 5evenue Of¿ce. The state would send $10.2 million in existing and new tax revenue to regional tourism agencies around the state during that period, and award $10.2 million in competi- tive grants to encourage tourism. 3ortland tourism of¿cials and rural lawmakers have both found aspects of the bill they dislike. Three Republicans on the House Committee on Revenue voted against the bill on Monday. A fourth, Rep. John Davis, R-Wilsonville, was excused from the vote. Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-Ontario, said Television > Today’s highlights hotel owners in his district do not expect the bill would help them. “I talked to many of my hotel operators across my district, and they were uniformly a ‘no,’” Bentz said. Rep. Gail Whitsett, R-Klamath Falls, said she agreed with Bentz. Rep. Mark Johnson, R-Hood River, said he voted against the bill because of concerns expressed by constituents, but he strongly supported “the underlying concept.” The bill now goes to the full House for a vote, which has not yet been scheduled. Randy Tucker, legislative affairs manager for the Metro regional government, said during a hearing last week that although the govern- ment supports using lodging taxes to help pay for the Eugene track event, doubling the state lodging tax would put Portland at a competitive disad- vantage to other cities with lower tax rates. Wednesday Morning 6 PBS ABC NBC CBS FOX STATION AM 6:30 AgDay Friends Good Day Oregon at 6 News News KOIN 6 News at 6 a.m. Wake Up Northwest KGW News at Sunrise Northwest Northwest KATU News Morning Stretch W.L.Yoga (31) KTNW (59) OPB 13 Yoga/Yoga Jet Go! (N) 11 KPTV 3 (19) KEPR 2 KOIN 19 (25) KNDU 6 KGW 8 (42) KVEW 4 KATU 5 (11) KFFX Cities and counties across the state impose local tourism taxes and Elizabeth Edwards, from the City of Portland’s Of¿ce of Government Relations, said the bill would push the total hotel tax in Portland to more than 15 percent. Metro owns and operates the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, and Tucker said the “group travel” events hosted by the center bring in visitors who spend more than leisure tourists, the category that would attend sporting events. “We believe that permanently doubling the current tax rate and devoting the new resources primarily to state leisure tourism marketing will harm the state’s ability to continue attracting lucrative conven- tion travel and convention groups,” Tucker said. Although there continues to be political support for TrackTown USA’s bid to bring the 2021 World Outdoor Championships to Eugene, government of¿cials involved with the plan face greater scrutiny since the BBC reported in early December Kids 7 AM 7:30 News Sports Movies 8 8:30 9 AM Eco Co. Paid The Office Paid Good Day Oregon CBS This Morning CBS This Morning Today Show (N) Today Show (N) Good Morning America (N) Good Morning America (N) Wild Kratts Jet Go! (N) Nature Cat Thomas Nature Cat C.George D.Tiger D.Tiger AM that French investigators were looking into how Oregon landed the event. The Register-Guard reported in January that Nike, company co-founder Phil Knight, CEO Mark Parker and University of Oregon trustees contributed nearly $400,000 to Gov. John Kitzhaber’s re-election campaign in fall 2014. Kitzhaber had previously been skeptical of TrackTown USA and the University of Oregon Foundation’s request for a $40 million state subsidy for the event, but the governor came out in support of the subsidy after his campaign received the contributions. The UO board told the newspaper it was “Àat wrong” to insinuate there was any connection. Nike and the university trustees aren’t the only fans of the bill. 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