HB 504 Summary

• Authorizes counties to adopt ordinances regulating hosting platforms that provide booking services for transient accommodations operators within their jurisdictions.

• Defines "booking service" as any reservation or payment service provided by a person who facilitates transactions between prospective transient users and hosts.

• Defines "hosting platform" as a person who participates in transient accommodations business by collecting or receiving fees, directly or indirectly, for conducting booking service transactions.

• Addresses the legislature's finding that illegal and unregulated transient accommodations have negatively impacted the state's housing supply and aims to prevent further proliferation of illegal accommodations while preserving residential housing.