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Senate Transportation considers clarifying that disabled veterans are exempt from vehicle emissions and EV infrastructure fees
Summary
On Feb. 11 the Senate Transportation Committee discussed language to clarify that certain disabled veterans who received VA assistance to modify or purchase vehicles are exempt from the $2 annual emissions fee and from the new EV infrastructure fee; staff will draft clarified language and send it to the commissioner for reaction.
On Feb. 11 the Senate Transportation Committee resumed testimony on a miscellaneous DMV bill and heard from Robert Burke, director of Veterans Affairs for the State of Vermont, and committee staff about clarifying whether disabled veterans who receive VA assistance for vehicle purchases or significant modifications are exempt from small statutory vehicle fees.
The clarification under discussion would specify that “no fees shall be charged” to qualifying veterans for vehicle registration, explicitly including the $2 annual emissions fee required under 3 VSA 28 22(m)(1) and the electric-vehicle infrastructure fee created in 23 VSA 3 61. "This is clarifying that that $2 annual emissions fee ... is also included in that annual exemption of the fees," a committee drafter said during the hearing.
The change would…
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