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House panel hears cleanup bill setting 3¢ per‑kWh charge on public EV stations
Summary
The House Taxation Committee heard Senate Bill 228, a sponsor-described cleanup of prior EV taxation law that would enforce a 3¢ per kilowatt-hour tax on public charging stations and clarify metering. Supporters say it fixes drafting gaps; opponents say the senate removed a 2028 registration-fee reduction that protected in‑state EV drivers.
Sen. Denley Logie, sponsor of Senate Bill 228, told the House Taxation Committee the proposal is a cleanup of last session’s electric‑vehicle legislation meant to ensure public charging stations are separately metered and that a 3¢ per kilowatt-hour tax on those stations flows into the state gas‑tax fund. "We had to clean up some wording," Logie said, adding the bill removes a planned step‑down in an EV registration fee that had been part of earlier measures.
Larry Flynn, deputy director of the Montana Department of Transportation, told the committee the bill “is not a revisitation of the policy issue about the taxation of electric vehicles” but rather fixes implementation language. Flynn said the state collected about $760,000 in EV registration fees in 2024 and roughly $47,000…
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