It's way better! I want to be able to comparison shop: now I can judge Hotel A (advertised @ $200) and Hotel B ($179) on the same basis, without trying to guess

It's way better! I want to be able to comparison shop: now I can judge Hotel A (advertised @ $200) and Hotel B ($179) on the same basis, without trying to guess which of them will be adding on what additional (un-advertised, and - so far as I can tell - unknowable until check-in) fees. Whenever-ago it was hotels started doing that the extra fees were fairly nominal, and it was easy to shrug at them. Last year my wife and I stayed at a hotel (thankfully paid for by her work) with a $50 per-person/night "resort fee". In the event, neither of us used those amenities (though yes, we still had to pay: I asked), so that's not what that fee was _really_ about. It's entirely an obfuscation. This bill adds nothing to the state budget. Allowing price discovery (and therefore free markets) to work, is what regulation should do, even under a fairly libertarian theory of government. It's certainly worthy of legislative time.