HB 400 Summary

• Authorizes counties to enact and enforce ordinances regulating hosting platforms that provide booking services for transient accommodation operators within their jurisdictions.

• Defines "hosting platform" as any person or entity that collects or receives fees for facilitating transient accommodation transactions between users and hosts, directly or indirectly.

• Defines "booking service" as reservation or payment services that facilitate transient accommodations transactions between prospective users and hosts.

• Aims to prevent illegal and unregulated transient accommodations from depleting the state's housing supply by giving counties regulatory authority over the platforms that facilitate these bookings.

• Takes effect upon approval.