Room tax bill gets Senate approval

Tuesday, April 20, 1999 | 9:15 a.m.

The measure approved late Monday now goes to the Assembly. It authorizes a three percentage point hike in the tax paid on hotel and motel rooms in Washoe County, and a two percentage point hike for downtown Reno.

A late amendment also funnels some of that money to Sparks. The bill requires the Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority to pay Sparks in increasing increments up to $350,000 a year over eight years.

Sparks officials have been critical of how room tax money is spent and have complained the tourism agency does not do enough to promote Reno's neighboring city.

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