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Panel advances bill to levy fee on older heavy‑duty trucks to fund air‑quality work
Summary
The committee adopted amendments and voted 8–2 to favorably recommend HB 263, which creates a tiered registration fee (example: $175 cited in debate) on pre‑2010 heavy‑duty trucks and directs revenues to air‑quality mitigation or the transportation fund depending on amendment language.
Representative Tyler Clancy sponsored HB 263, which would add an emissions‑tiered fee on certain heavy‑duty trucks when they are registered in Utah, with the goal of encouraging fleet modernization and raising funds for air‑quality mitigation.
Clancy said the policy targets the oldest heavy‑duty trucks and argued that updating engines or retiring pre‑2010 trucks produces large emissions benefits. “The simple upgrade from a pre‑2010 heavy duty truck to a modern engine delivers emission benefits equivalent of taking 20 older trucks off the road,” he told the committee while describing the bill…
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