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Appropriations adds $1M toward mileage-based user fee; committee flags one-word fix to bill language
Summary
House appropriations included $1 million of a $3 million request to support a mileage-based user-fee pilot; committee discussed whether to make a minor wording change to the bill’s intent and agreed to defer a floor amendment for now while the federal grant decision remains pending.
House Transportation Committee members said House Appropriations has included $1,000,000 of a $3,000,000 request to support programming for a mileage-based user-fee pilot, and committee staff discussed a minor wording change to clarify the bill’s stated intent.
The appropriation was raised at the committee’s March 25 meeting as lawmakers weighed next steps while a related federal grant application with the Federal Highway Administration remains on hold. Damon Leonard, legislative counsel to the committee, said the FHWA decision could take ‘‘somewhere between two to eight weeks,’’ and that the committee has $700,000 already in place that could serve as match funding if the federal award comes through.
Why it matters: the $1 million addition would fund program start-up work if the federal grant is delayed or canceled; clarifying the bill’s intent would…
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