California tourism: assessments: restaurants and retail industry.

The California Tourism Marketing Act requires the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) to establish the California Travel and Tourism Commission, a nonprofit mutual benefit corporation, for the purpose of increasing the number of persons traveling to and within California. The act requires the commission to annually prepare and implement a tourism marketing plan, among other things, and provides for the imposition by referendum and collection of specified assessments upon businesses in industry segments of the tourism industry to fund the plan and other duties of the commission. The act exempts certain categories of businesses, including small businesses and…