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Ways & Means members report on MBUF, data-broker bill and other committee activity
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Summary
Members gave brief updates: Senate Finance was scheduled to vote on the miscellaneous tax and yield bills; members discussed a phased mileage-based user fee for EVs (MBUF) and noted pending hearings on data-broker and extended producer responsibility bills.
Committee members used the meeting to update colleagues on activity in other committees and to flag upcoming items.
Representative Fulton reported she had checked with another committee chair and found no scope conflicts and said she "will continue my diligence" on coordination; she noted S179 will be taken up next week. The chair said Senate Finance was scheduled to vote on the miscellaneous tax bill and the yield bill that afternoon and that members would receive reports subsequently.
Members briefly discussed Senate Transportation's mileage-based user fee concept (MBUF). One member summarized the proposal as phased: starting with electric vehicles and later expanding to hybrids and combustion vehicles; another member observed the fee could duplicate existing fuel taxes and questioned how it would interact with current registration fees.
Members also noted ongoing testimony and possible votes in other committees: economic development was discussing H211 and H9211 (data brokers and personal information), and H915 (extended producer responsibility) had been scheduled for testimony. No formal committee actions on these items were taken in this meeting.
