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Committee updates mileage‑based user fee language; defers collection mechanics amid funding uncertainty
Summary
Agency drafters revised mileage‑based user fee language to reflect funding uncertainty, a $350,000 design appropriation and a shift in how electric‑vehicle infrastructure fees are described. The committee heard technical questions about collecting fees from out‑of‑state vehicles and directed staff to refine the draft.
Agency staff presented updated language on Thursday to the transportation committee to reflect the current status of the mileage‑based user fee program and to acknowledge uncertainty in federal funding for implementation.
The draft removes a prior 2025 start date in favor of wording that conditions implementation on "sufficient funding being available for implementation." The drafters also replaced a prior registration surcharge concept with an "electric vehicle infrastructure fee" and removed a placeholder of "to…
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