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Committee approves study bill to raise in-state IFTA decal fee to $1
Summary
A Senate committee passed Senate Study Bill 1045 to raise the in-state International Fuel Tax Agreement decal fee from $0.50 to $1 to cover production costs; sponsor said the DOT’s production cost is $0.92 per decal.
A Senate committee voted to pass Senate Study Bill 1045, which increases the fee for in-state commercial motor-vehicle International Fuel Tax Agreement (IFTA) decals from $0.50 to $1. Sponsor Senator Webster said the Department of Transportation’s cost to produce the decal is $0.92, and the fee change is intended to cover that production cost.
The bill was presented by Senator Webster, who opened by describing the current law that requires commercial motor vehicles subject to IFTA licensing to also obtain a decal and noted the current statutorily set decal price is 50 cents. “The bill takes the fee to $1. The cost to the DOT to produce that particular sticker is 92 cents, and that is why we are looking at raising the fee in order to cover the cost of that particular item,” Webster said.
There was no substantive discussion recorded in the transcript after the sponsor’s remarks. Senator Webster moved the bill; the committee called the short form and the motion passed. The transcript records several names during the brief voting-record exchange—Senator Busciano, Senator Townsend and Senator Blake were identified in the committee’s administrative confirmation of the vote—but no complete roll-call tally appears in the record. The committee announced the study bill will move to the calendar under Rule 40.
No fiscal note, effective date, or implementation detail beyond the per-decal cost was provided during the committee discussion in the transcript.
