California Travel and Tourism Commission.

The California Tourism Marketing Act authorizes the establishment of the California Travel and Tourism Commission, a nonprofit mutual benefit corporation, for the purpose of promoting tourism in California, as specified. The act requires all meetings of the commission to be held in California. The act provides for an assessment for the passenger rental car industry to be adopted by referendum on a proposed rate set by the commission that will generate funding that, when aggregated with other funding for the commission, is sufficient to fund approved marketing plan costs of no less than $50,000,000 per fiscal year. This bill would instead require a California location to be available for all commission meetings. This bill would require that the proposed assessment be set by the commission at a rate of no more than 3.5% that will generate no more than 60% of all expenditures set by the commission, as provided, and that the approved marketing plan of the commission be no less than $50,000,000 per fiscal year.