CHAPTER NUMBER: 611 
File Code: Miscellaneous - Local
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 1307  
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Senators Bromwell and Hoffman
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Baltimore City - Hotel Room Tax - Convention Center Promotion
 
Extending through FY 2002 a 7.5% limit on the rate of the Baltimore
City hotel tax; and requiring that for FY 1998 through 2002 at least
40% of the proceeds from the tax be appropriated specifically for
convention center marketing and promotion of tourism.
Senate Action
- 1/31
 - First Reading Budget and Taxation
 - 2/12
 - Hearing 3/4 at 4:00 p.m.
 - 3/13
 - Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation
 - 3/14
 - Favorable Report Adopted (38-0)
 -      Second Reading Passed
 - 3/18
 - Third Reading Passed (46-0)
 - 4/1
 - Returned Passed
 - 5/22
 - Signed by the Governor Chapter 611
 
House Action
- 3/18
 - First Reading Ways and Means
 - 3/19
 - Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/31
 - Favorable Report by Ways and Means
 - 3/27
 - Favorable Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed
 - 3/28
 - Third Reading Passed (125-8)
 
- Sponsored by:
 - Senator Thomas L. Bromwell, District 8
 - Senator Barbara A. Hoffman, District 42
 
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
 - BALTIMORE CITY
 - CONVENTIONS
 - HOTELS AND MOTELS
 - MANDATES
 - REVENUE AND TAXES -see also specific taxes -
 - TOURISM
 
- Bill Text:
 -  First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled 
 - Fiscal Note:
 Available (PDF)