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Committee removes records-retention clause from mileage-fee draft, debates pay-as-you-go reporting and penalties
Summary
A legislative committee agreed to remove a records-retention provision (section 4308) from a draft mileage-based user fee, debated adding pay-as-you-go self-reporting, whether the department should set recordkeeping rules, and how inspection data and a default flat fee would reconcile unpaid balances.
A legislative committee working on a proposed mileage-based user fee agreed during its session to remove a records-retention provision from the draft bill and spent much of the meeting debating how self-reporting, inspections and penalties should work.
For the record, Damien Leonard of the Office of Legislative Council summarized the staff view that section 4308, which was modeled on distributor and dealer requirements for fuel sales, did not fit the mileage-fee program because odometer readings are expected to be maintained by the state. "This is language that's really more closely tied to ... wholesale dealers for gas and diesel fuel," Leonard said, and the committee agreed the section could be struck from the draft.
Patrick Murphy, who identified himself as the state policy director for the agency working on the proposal, told…
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