{"id":1217,"date":"2019-02-01T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2019\/02\/01\/lege-trend-anatomy-of-a-statewide-short-term-rental-bill\/"},"modified":"2019-02-01T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T17:32:00","slug":"lege-trend-anatomy-of-a-statewide-short-term-rental-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/lege-trend-anatomy-of-a-statewide-short-term-rental-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege TREND. Anatomy of a Statewide Short Term Rental Bill."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>State: <\/strong>Massachusetts<\/p>\n<p><strong>The bill: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/190\/H4841\">H4841 (MA | 2018)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What does this statewide short term rental bill\u00a0do?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>register with the state<\/li>\n<li>minimum of $1 million in insurance<\/li>\n<li>5% tax to the state<\/li>\n<li>Cities can impose an additional 6% tax<\/li>\n<li>Creates state\u00a0affordable housing fund\n<ul>\n<li>funded by 3% \u00a0tax on\u00a0property owners with 2+ short-term rentals in the same city<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Exempts properties rented for fewer than 14 days\/year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/topics\/urban\/gov-massachusetts-airbnb-housing-regulations.html?utm_term=As%20Airbnb%20Battles%20Cities%20Trying%20to%20Regulate%20It%2C%20One%20State%20Joins%20the%20Fight&amp;utm_campaign=As%20Airbnb%20Battles%20Cities%20Trying%20to%20Regulate%20It%2C%20One%20State%20Joins%20the%20Fight&amp;utm_content=email&amp;utm_source=Act-On+Software&amp;utm_medium=email\">Governing |\u00a0As Airbnb Battles Cities Trying to Regulate It, One State Joins the Fight<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>State: <\/strong>Massachusetts<\/p>\n<p><strong>The bill: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/190\/H4841\">H4841 (MA | 2018)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What does this statewide short term rental bill\u00a0do?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>register with the state<\/li>\n<li>minimum of $1 million in insurance<\/li>\n<li>5% tax to the state<\/li>\n<li>Cities can impose an additional 6% tax<\/li>\n<li>Creates state\u00a0affordable housing fund\n<ul>\n<li>funded by 3% \u00a0tax on\u00a0property owners with 2+ short-term rentals in the same city<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Exempts properties rented for fewer than 14 days\/year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/topics\/urban\/gov-massachusetts-airbnb-housing-regulations.html?utm_term=As%20Airbnb%20Battles%20Cities%20Trying%20to%20Regulate%20It%2C%20One%20State%20Joins%20the%20Fight&amp;utm_campaign=As%20Airbnb%20Battles%20Cities%20Trying%20to%20Regulate%20It%2C%20One%20State%20Joins%20the%20Fight&amp;utm_content=email&amp;utm_source=Act-On+Software&amp;utm_medium=email\">Governing |\u00a0As Airbnb Battles Cities Trying to Regulate It, One State Joins the Fight<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,14,37,2,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-legislative-issue","category-legislation-trend","category-local-government-trend","category-private-property-rights","category-sharing-economy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}