Legislative Priorities/Position

2025 MACVB Legislative Priorities

• Support Minnesota Statute 469.190 limiting the use of local lodging taxes to tourism marketing efforts. Oppose any changes to current law or the diversion of lodging taxes for any purpose beyond tourism marketing.
• Close the loophole on lodging tax collection, ensuring the lodging tax is collected on the full sale price of the room, regardless of whether the tax is collected locally or by the state.
• Support language allowing cities statewide to create social districts if they choose.
• Support language in statute that dedicates and directs a percentage of Explore Minnesota’s budget totaling no less than $1.5 million/biennium to be used for local grants and cooperative advertising. These resources support tourism efforts across the state of Minnesota.
• Engage in legislation that supports a percentage of or definitive dollar designation of any allocation of dollars for the attraction of sports and events to Minnesota to be allocated outside of the MSP metro area.
• Support maintaining Minnesota’s prohibition of school districts starting classes prior to Labor Day.
• Support legislation that allows public land, especially that designated as park land and used for tourism purposes, to remain under state control.