The Kanab Republican has sponsored a number of bills designed to give more control over public policy to rural Utah counties — including his own Kane County — and cramming their preferred policies down the throats of the state’s more populous urban centers.
Now he has a bill, HB367, that would increase the amount of money rural communities can spend from hotel and motel taxes on roads and other amenities by $2.5 million. It would allow them to steer half the transient room tax toward road maintenance and upgrades. Currently, they can use a third of those taxes for that purpose.