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Lawmakers press agency on transition mechanics and limits of historical odometer data
Summary
Committee questioned how the agency will avoid double-charging during the shift from the EV infrastructure fee to a mileage-based user fee and heard that historical odometer readings cannot be imported at launch; the agency proposed crediting prior infrastructure fees to the first mileage reporting period and asked for language to address overlapping cycles.
Lawmakers pressed Agency of Transportation staff about how to manage the transition from the existing EV infrastructure fee to a mileage-based user fee and how revenue allocated to ACCD would be handled as the new system takes effect.
Patrick Murphy told the committee that because the new core DMV system will not be able to import historical odometer readings at launch, many vehicles will need two post-implementation odometer readings (start and close of a mileage reporting period) before they can be reconciled into the mileage-based system. "We will not be able to use the existing odometer readings that we have in the other system because we've not created the connection between the two," he said.
To avoid double charges, Murphy described an onboarding approach: vehicles would continue to pay the existing flat infrastructure fee until they complete one full mileage reporting period, after which they would be credited in the mileage-based system; any portion of infrastructure-fee revenue that applies to an overlapping mileage reporting period would be applied to that period so drivers are not charged twice. The agency warned this creates modeling complexity and a likely short-term revenue dip while enrollment patterns settle.
Committee members asked for modeling of how ACCD funding (the current recipient of some infrastructure-fee revenue) will be affected as that revenue transitions to the transportation fund; members asked the agency and staff to draft statutory language clarifying timing, credits and fund flows and to return with specific options and revenue projections.
