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House Transportation panel weighs mileage-based user fee; agency cites 11,000-mile average
Summary
The House Transportation Committee reviewed draft 4.1 of a mileage-based user fee proposal for electric vehicles, debating removal, contingency language, and how to calculate and update an estimated registration charge. Agency staff said the UVM Transportation Research Center’s analysis sets the current average annual vehicle miles at about 10,850–11,000, which produces an estimated $154 registration amount before credits.
The House Transportation Committee on March 13 examined draft 4.1 of a mileage-based user fee proposal for battery electric vehicles, focusing on whether to keep the provision, remove it, or include contingency language and an inflation-adjuster. Committee members also pressed agency staff on how the proposal would estimate a registration fee for newly registered EVs and how payments and true-ups would work.
Damien Leonard, legislative counsel, said the draft removes a previously confusing "mileage reporting period" definition and clarifies the pay-as-you-go option. "For the mileage reporting period...the commissioner would determine if the actual miles traveled by the BEV during the reporting period were greater than or less than the miles reported by the owner during that period," Leonard said, describing how the bill would require reconciliation at the end of a reporting period.
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