House of Representatives

Water Valley is authorized to adopt a local restaurant tax to fund tourism promotion and parks and recreation; details like rate and exemptions are set by local ordinance.

Extends Petal's repealer, preserving the city's authority to levy hotel/motel and restaurant/bar tourism taxes, maintaining local funding for tourism promotion.

Extends the sunset date for Hattiesburg's local hotel, motel and restaurant tax, preserving revenue for tourism and city programs without changing tax rates.

Calhoun County can levy conviction-based assessments to fund courthouse and pretrial detention facility improvements, creating a local capital-funding stream from defendants.